The "PopSci" crowd is getting tiresome. Kaku and DeGrasse are modern day clerics for a new age religion.
The European Union is not new. Confederations of autonomous states have existed under the "Articles of Confederation", under the "Holy Roman Empire", and under a thousand other names. What these all have in common is the urge to federalize. Or, to use a different term, nationalize, which seems to be the boogey man in Kaku's political universe. The EU will centralize more and more authority. This will make it no more and no less a "type 1 government".
The European Union is not new. Confederations of autonomous states have existed under the "Articles of Confederation", under the "Holy Roman Empire", and under a thousand other names. What these all have in common is the urge to federalize. Or, to use a different term, nationalize, which seems to be the boogey man in Kaku's political universe. The EU will centralize more and more authority. This will make it no more and no less a "type 1 government".