for - question - direction without specific endpoint.- transcendence- backcasting

question - direction without a specific endpoint - transcendence - Has the author thought about the important role of backcasting, which does require an end point? - If we want to solve the existential polycrisis, which includes the climate crisis, backcasting can be highly effective but it does require both endpoint AND direction. - We need to know what the world will look like in 2030 so and backcast to the present to know what we must do today to move towards that future.