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Key insight: James Hansen

• The key insight James Hansen conveys is that
  • the key to rapid system change is
    • WHAT? the rapid emergence of a new, third political party that does not take money from special interest lobbys.
    • WHY? Hit the Achilles heel of the Fossil Fuel industry
    • HOW? widespread citizen / youth campaign to elect new youth leaders across the US and around the globe
    • WHEN? Timing is critical. In the US,
      • Don't spoil the vote for the two party system in 2024 elections. Better to have a democracy than a dictatorship.
      • Realistically, likely have to wait to be a contender in the 2028 election.

reference

• paper - Global Warming in the Pipeline
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Foocc%2Farticle%2F3%2F1%2Fkgad008%2F7335889&group=world
• Michael Mann's critique of the paper
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelmann.net%2Fcontent%2Fcomments-new-article-james-hansen&group=world

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key insight

• Both democrats and conservatives are captured by fossil fuel lobbyist interests
• A new third political party that does not take money from special interests is required
• The nature of the polycrisis is that crisis are entangled . This is a case in point. The climate crisis cannot be solved unless the political crisis of money influencing politics is resolved
• The system needs to be rapidly reformed to kick money of special interest groups out of politics.

question

• Given the short timescale, the earliest we can achieve this is 2028 in the US Election cycle
• Meanwhile what can we do in between?
• How much impact can alternative forms of local governance like https://sonec.org/ have?
• In particular, could citizens form local alternative forms of governance and implement incentives to drive sustainable behavior?