• for: key insight - sectors emerged naturally

• for: time between worlds, new sector needed to solve today's wicked problems, birthing process, transition - birthing process

• claim: old sectors cannot solve emerging wicked problems, giving rise to a new sector that can

• for: meme - continent of coherence, emerging commons governance, transition, awakening the sleeping giant

• for: emergence - signs of

• annotate

• for: downscaled earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, TPF

• annotate
• for: AI - progress trap, technology - colonialism

• for: AI ethics controversy - citations from Dean please!

• comment

  • Can Dean please provide the missing citations he is referring to?

• for: progress trap - urgent need for a new science

• comment

  • Science and technology are constantly producing progress traps. Climate crisis is a major example, but there are so many other. We really and urgently need to motivate for a new field of study of progress traps in general.

• for: example - progress trap - AI - mistranslation

• for: AI - untraceability - metaphor

metaphor - untraceability - AI: like a self configuring engine - Imagine a metaphor in the automobile industry. Imagine a car that could self-design itself. - Now imagine the car breaking down and the owner has to bring it into a repair shop to get it fixed. - The problem is that because the AI car designed its own engine and did not make a record of how that was done, no mechanic can fix it.

• for: progress trap -AI, carbon footprint - AI, progress trap - AI - bias, progress trap - AI - situatedness

• for: elephants in the room - financial industry at the heart of the polycrisis, polycrisis - key role of finance industry, Marjorie Kelly, Capitalism crisis, Laura Flanders show, book - Wealth Supremacy - how the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Captialism Drive Today's Crises

• Summary

  • This talk really emphasizes the need for the Stop Reset Go / Deep Humanity Wealth to Wellth program
  • Interviewee Marjorie Kelly started Business Ethics magainze in 1987 to show the positive side of business After 30 years, she found that it was still tinkering at the edges. Why? - because it wasn't addressing the fundamental issue.
  • Why there hasn't been noticeable change in spite of all these progressive efforts is because we avoided questioning the fundamental assumption that maximizing returns to shareholders and gains to shareholder portfolios is good for people and planet.**** It turns out that it isn't. It's fundamentally bad for civilization and has played a major role in shaping today's polycrisis.
  • Why wealth supremacy is entangled with white supremacy
  • Financial assets are the subject
    • Equity and bonds use to be equal to GDP in the 1950s.
    • Now it's 5 times as much
  • Financial assets extracts too much from common people
  • Question: Families are swimming in debt. Who owns all this financial debt? ...The financial elites do.

• meme

  • wealth supremacy and white supremacy are entangled

• for: speculative investing - housing, speculative investing - antidote - example - Cincinnati

• description

  • speculative institutional investors have bought up trillions of dollars of foreclosure homes and increase profits for their shareholders by:
    • neglecting maintenance
    • raising rents
    • pursuing aggressive evictions

• speculative investing - antidote - example

  • In Cincinnati, the Port of Cincinnati bought back 200 homes from private equity firms and did the opposite
    • stabilize rents
    • perform required maintenance
    • training renters to become home owners

• for: key question - maximizing returns

• key question

• quote: Marjorie Kelly
  • Is maximizing returns really what we insist upon if that is the force that's driving our fragility and ecological crisis?

• for: key insight - adjacency - polycrisis - pension funds investing in private equity are a driving force

• key insight

• adjacency between
  • polycrisis
  • pension funds
  • private equity
  • inequality
  • climate crisis
• adjacency statement
  • Pension funds are major investors in private equity, who in turn, through speculative investing are maintaining wealth supremacy and perpetuation inequality and climate crisis

• for: system change - where to start

• paraphrase

  • You don't start a feminist revolution by arguing with your dad. He might be the one who needs to change, but that doesn't mean that you start there.
  • You start by talking to each other. We need to come together. We need to have solidarity.
  • We need to have a common narrative and analysis and understanding of what's happening.
  • And I think a common understanding of pathways of change and we need that core nucleus of people who really are working for system change.
  • I think that's where we start. And hopefully, the narrative and the clarity that we can bring will be compelling enough that we will win more hearts and minds

• comment

  • cascading social tipping points

• for: quote - transformation

• quote: Marjorie Kelly

  • We don't start by asking: Is transformation possible? We start by asking: Is it necessary?

• for: steps towards a democracy collaborative

• description

  • two steps to form a democracy collaborative
    • more inclusive ownership
    • building the next system of capital

• for: Marjorie Kelly - spiritual background in Christianity and Buddhism

• for: quote - Martin Luther King Jr., quote - first steps

• quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • You don't need to know the layout of the entire staircase to take the first step

• for: quote - Martin Luther King Jr., quote racial integration alone is not enough

• quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

  • I think we are going to win the battle of integration but i worry I'm integrating my people into a burning house

• comment

  • It's not good enough to share in the same privileges as whites because the way that wealth supremacy works, ALL peopple suffere equally.

• for: the real BIG LIE, elephant in the room - wealth inequality, working class driven to hard right

• for: productive vs speculative / extractive investing

• for: example - financial investor ignorance

• speculative investing - example

  • Marjorie tells the story of her financial investor who was clueless about whether this investment she was advocating for was derivatives that invest nothing in production and development of wind technology, or not.

• for: book - wealth supremacy - 7 myths, 7 myths of Capitalism, capital bias, definition - capital bias

• DESCRIPTION: 7 MYTHS of CAPITALISM

  • The Myth of Maximization
    • example of absurdity of maximization
      • Bill Gates had $10 billion. Then he invested it and got $300 billion. There's no limit to how much wealth an individual can accumulate. It is absurd.
  • Myth of the Income Statement
    • Gains to capital called profit is always to be increased and
    • Gains of labor is called an expense, is always to be decreased
  • Myth of Materiality (also called capital bias)
  • definition: capital bias
    • If something impacts capital, it matters
    • If something impacts society or ecology, it doesn't matter
  • With the capital bias, only accumulating more capital matters. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. This is how most accountants and CFO's view the world.

• quote: Laura Flanders

  • The capital is what matters. We're aiming for more capital and nothing else really matters. That's the operating system of the economy. So the real world is immaterial to this world of wealth as held in stocks and shares and financial instruments.

• for: definition - wealth supremacy

• definition: wealth supremacy

  • is the condition of an economic system that is purposely designed so that those already in possession of a great deal of wealth can at the minimum maintain their share, but more proactively to grow it
  • by definition, wealth supremacy is designed to maintain inequality
  • since carbon inequality tracks wealth inequality, this system is designed to maintain climate injustice

• for: speculative investing - example

• example - speculative investing

  • stock market
    • money is not reaching companies and being used in a productive way
    • part of it must be, but whenever shareholders take earnings, then it's extracted out
  • private equity
    • when private equity firms buy companies then layoff staff and cut back spending on services, they pocket all that money for the shareholders. It's a way for the rich to maintain their supremacy position

• comment

  • In its simplest expression, it is greed in action
  • It is what maintains the 1% / 99% divide

• epiphany

• new meme
  • We need to replace WALL street with WELL street!

• for: quote - Marjorie Kelly, quote - finacialization, progress trap - financialization, progress trap - capitalism, speculative investing

• quote: Marjorie Kelly

  • we're not in the economy of the 1950s anymore.
  • And we act as though we are, that finance is this productive force and it's building, it's building wealth.
  • Well, for the most part, it's not.
  • There's so much financialization, so many financial assets, that they've become an extractive force.
    • And a big piece of this is that we're not really distinguishing between
      • productive investments and
      • speculative investments

• for: Deep Humanity music BEing journeys, BEing journey - music, Rachel Shroeder

• for: progress trap - green growth - nickel mining - evicting uncontacted tribe

• progress trap: green growth - mining

  • Capitalist logic justifies this violence
  • We destroy the earth in order to save the earth
  • Question
    • Is this really the way we should be doing things?
    • Is the green growth agenda really going to keep humanity safe? Or will the unintended consequences, the progress trap be worse than the problem it is attempting to solve?

• for: green growth - ethics - indigenous violence, Indonesia - violence against indigenous people, progress trap - green growth - nickel mining - eviction of indigenous people

• for: definition - weather whiplash

• definition: weather whiplash

  • when weather switches abruptly from one extreme to another

• for: SoNeC - SRG / TPF gamified rapid whole system change, SRG / TPF proposal

• SRG / TPF project proposals for SONEC communities

  • Emerge candidates for a global 3rd political party with no money from special interests
    • education,
    • recruitment
    • training
    • as per
      • James Hansen
        • https://hyp.is/70vs5KWoEe6GbH_T_BlQ_Q/docdrop.org/video/8Ag3UVSrlhE/
        • https://hyp.is/Oz5YqqYBEe6cW7N02P7-Pg/academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889
      • Progressive International
        • https://hyp.is/N0bxsJaaEe6Nmp_cqQcA7Q/docdrop.org/video/3dxLs-zX5xA/
      • this reflects the polycrisis's entangled nature:
        • climate crisis
        • political crisis
  • Cosmolocal production network
  • Bootstrap local WEconomy via community owned cooperatives:
    • bioeconomy
      • concentrated organic produce production
      • agroforestry production
    • renewable energy
    • low cost desalinated water
  • Open citizen science project on local climate departure as proxy for economic impacts of climate change
  • Deep Humanity / BEing journeys
  • Gamified rapid whole system change via:
    • downscaled earth system boundaries and
    • doughnut economics
  • Cascading Social Tipping Point Theory
  • Youth afterschool climate activism clubs
  • Network of sustainable restaurants for meetings, talks and presentations
  • Local community economics to RELOCALIZE the economy
  • Jan 1, 2024 adders
    • Appeal to local north districts of cities
      • Wealth2Wellth program to show High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) living in wealthy local north communities climate change trends that are occurring in realtime to show present and near future sea level rise and forest fire impacts on their expensive beachfront and forest properties respectively
    • sister ward / sister city partnerships
      • create local north / south as well as global north / south partnerships for upliftment and
        • creating more wealth in local south communities as well as wellth
        • creating more wellth in local north communities
    • climate crisis / polycrisis education and motivational speaking from top thought leaders via global audience outreach to the SoNeC global network of youth and communty SoNeC hubs
      • many ordinary people do not realize the urgency of our situation or have become so jaded. Personal interaction with leading authorities can make a difference

• for: types of initiators of community projects, SONEC - initiators of community projects, question - frameworks for community projects, suggestion - collaboration with My Climate Risk, suggestion - collaboration with U of Hawaii, suggestion - collaboration with ICICLE, suggestion - collaboration with earth commission, suggestion - collaboration with DEAL

• question: frameworks for community projects

  • If our interest is to attempt to create a global collective action campaign to address our existential polycrisis, which includes the climate crisis, then how do we mobilize at the community level in a meaningful way?

  • I suggest that this must be a cosmolocal effort. Why? Knowledge sharing across all the communities will accelerate the transition of any participating local community.

  • This means that we cannot rely on citizens living in small communities to construct an effective coordination framework for rapid de-escalation of the polycrisis. The capacity does not exist within small communities to build such a complex system. The system can be more effectively built before the collective action campaign is started by a virtual community of experts and ready for trial with pilot communities.
  • To meet this enormous challenge, it cannot be done in an adhoc way. At this point in time, many people in many communities all around the globe know of the existential crisis we face, but if we look at the annual carbon emissions, none of the existing community efforts has made a difference in their continuing escalation.
  • The knowledge required to synchronize millions of communities to have a unified wartime-scale collective action mobilization to reach decarbonization goals that the mainstream approach has not even made a dent in will be a complex problem.
  • In other words, what is proposed is a partnership.
  • Since we are faced with global commons problems that pose existential threats if not mitigated in 5 to 8 years, the scope of the problem is enormous.
  • Super wicked problems require unprecedented levels of collaboration at every level.
  • The downscaling of global planetary boundaries and doughnut economics seems the most logical way to think global, act local.

  • Building such a collaboration system requires expert knowledge. Once built, however, it requires testing in pilot communities. This is where a partnership can take place

  • 2024, Jan. 1 Adder

    • My Climate Risk Regional Hubs
      • time 29:46 of https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Funfccc.int%2Fevent%2Flater-is-too-late-tipping-the-balance-from-negative-to-positive&group=world
      • https://www.wcrp-climate.org/mcr-hubs
      • Suggestion:
        • SRG has long entertained a collaborative open science project for grassroots polycrisis / climate crisis education - to measure and validate latest climate departure dates
        • This would make climate change far more salient to the average person because of the observable trends in disruption of local economic activity connected to the local ecology due to climate impacts
        • This would be a synergistic project between SRG, LCE, SoNeC, My Climate Risk hubs, ICICLE and U of Hawaii
        • Our community frameworks need to go BEYOND simply adaptation though, which is what "My Climate Risk" focuses exclusively on. We need to also engage equally in climate mitigation.
  • reference
  • I coedited this volume on examples of existing cosmolocal projects
    • https://clreader.net/

• for: COP28 talk - later is too late, Global tipping points report, question - are there maps of feedbacks of positive tipping points?, My Climate Risk, ICICLE, positive tipping points, social tipping points

• NOTE

  • This video is not yet available on YouTube so couldn't not be docdropped for annotation. So all annotations are done here referred to timestamp

• SUMMARY

  • This video has not been uploaded on youtube yet so there is no transcription and I am manually annotating on this page.

  • Positive tipping points

    • not as well studied as negative tipping points
    • cost parity is the most obvious but there are other factors relating to
      • politics
      • psychology
    • We are in a path dependency so we need disruptive change

• SPEAKER PANEL

  • Pierre Fredlingstein, Uni of Exeter - Global carbon budget report
  • Rosalyn Conforth, Uni of Reading - Adaptation Gap report
  • Tim Lenton, Uni of Exeter - Global Tipping Report

• Global Carbon Budget report summary

• 0:19:47: Graph of largest emitters

  • graph
  • comment
    • wow! We are all essentially dependent on China! How do citizens around the world influence China? I suppose if ANY of these major emitters don't radically reduce, we won't stay under 1.5 Deg C, but China is the biggest one.

• 00:20:51: Land Use Emissions

• three countries represent 55% of all land use emissions - Brazil - DRC - Indonesia

• 00:21:55: CDR

  • forests: 1.9 Gt / 5% of annual Fossil Fuel CO2 emissions
  • technological CDR: 0.000025% of annual Fossil Fuel CO2 emissions

• 00:23:00: Remaining Carbon Budget

  • 1.5 Deg C: 275 Gt CO2
  • 1.7 Deg C. 625 Gt CO2
  • 2.0 Deg C. 1150 Gt CO2

• Advancing an Inclusive Process for Adaptation Planning and Action

• adaptation is underfinanced. The gap is:

  • 194 billion / year
  • 366 billion / year by 2030
• climate change increases transboundary issues
  • need transboundary agreements but these are absent
  • conflicts and migration are a result of such transboundary climate impacts
  • people are increasing climate impacts to try to survive due to existing climate impacts

-00:29:46: My Climate Risk Regional Hubs - Looking at climate risks from a local perspective. - @Nate, @SoNeC - 00:30:33 ""ICICLE** storyllines - need bottom-up approach (ICICLE - Integrated Climate Livelihood and and Environment storylines)

• 00:32:58: Global Tipping Points

• 00:33:46: Five of planetary systems can tip at the current 1.2 Deg C

  • Greenland Ice Sheet
  • West Antarctic
  • Permafrost
  • Coral Reefs - 500 million people
  • Subpolar Gyre of North Atlantic - ice age in Europe
    • goes in a decade - like British Columbia climate

• 00:35:39

  • risks go up disproportionately with every 0.1 deg C of warming. There is no longer a business-as-usual option now. We CANNOT ACT INCREMENTALLY NOW.

• 00:36:00

  • we calculate a need of a speed up of a factor of 7 to shut down greenhouse gas emissions and that is done through positive tipping points.

-00:37:00 - We have accelerating positive feedbacks and if we coordinate policy changes with consumer behavior change and business behavior change to reinforce these positive feedbacks, we can help accelerate change in the other sectors of the global economy responsible for all the other emissions

• 00:37:30

  • in the report we walk you through the other sectors, where their tipping points are and how we have to act to trigger them. This is the only viable path out of our situation.

• 00:38:10

  • Positive tipping points can also reinforce each other
  • Question: Are there maps of the feedbacks of positive tipping points?
  • Tim only discusses economic and technological positive tipping points and does not talk about social or societal

• for: John Boik, societal design, whole system change, science-driven societal transformation

• description

  • John Boik presents his theory of science-driven societal transformation that has a large cosmolocal component to it
  • It's an elaboration of his earlier work at his https://principledsocietiesproject.org/ where, like the SRG/TPF and SoNeC project, sees the community as the fundamental buuilding block in society for mobilzing citizen-driven rapid whole system change.

• reference

  • SoNeC
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsonec.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FSoNeC-handbook-english.pdf&group=world

• annotate
• for: governance - country - commons approach

• for: climate deniers - where they live

• for: climate deniers - celebrity

• for: climate deniers - leading

• for: SoNeC impacts, local north local south collaboration, local north local south partnership

• recommendation

• Implement a community-to-community partnership between SoNeCs in wealthy communities and SoNeCs in neighbouring disenfranchised communities

• reference

  • https://medium.com/@gien_SRG/more-nuanced-terminology-for-post-colonialist-inequality-af2f1609635c

• for: definition - SoNeC-network circle

• definition: SoNeC-network circle

  • Representatives from 20-40 SoNeC form a group called the SoNeC-network group

• recommendation

  • In a city such as Cape Town, there are 3 million inhabitants andthere are 150 wards.
  • SoNeCs would need another layer of groups beyond this

• for: definition - I-Circle, city-scale group

• definition: I-Circle

  • The I-Circle is the Implementation Circle for the whole city and consists of a dozen people

• for: SoNeC first meeting items, SoNeC - first meeting - SRG/TPF additions

• comment

  • add all the SRG / TPF framework and projects
  • polycrisis with specific urgency of climate crisis
  • gamify bend-the-curve
  • indyweb / indranet system
  • First meeting is also a good opportunity to familiarize people with the SRG mapping and cascading tipping point mapping tools

• for: recommendation - replace SDG with downscaled earth system boundaries / doughnut economics

• recommendation

  • recommend syncing local actions to global impacts via downscaled earth system boundaries instead of just SDGs due to the urgent nature of the climate crisis

• for: SoNeC - SRG/TPF impact

• comment

  • present the SRG/TPF impact - cosmolocal - so local impact everywhere = global impact

• for: SRG - community strategy, TPF - community strategy, epiphany - Indyweb Coalition fair attribution map for all stakeholders

• comment

  • for SRG and TPF, the citizen launch is the optimal choice as it gives citizens the greatest autonomy.to get the correct framework established before approaching institutional partners for support

• epiphany: Indyweb generates detailed and fair attribution and contribution map for all coalition member involved

  • Indyweb features will allow for granular attribution to all stakeholders and organizations within a collaborative project
  • All contributions are automatically tracked as part of Indyweb workflow via the provenance feature and can be automatically surfaced in granular detail as metadata emergent from the group Indyweb mindplex, the intertwingled shared mindplexs of all participants
    • In particular, by using Indyweb's provenance feature, it allows for automatically tracking the exact nature of the contribution
  • For a multi-stakeholder coalition like Living Cities Earth, this takes care of fair automatic attribution
  • The result is a fair attribution map that shows exactly who contributed and what they contributed

• for SoNeC - implentation roles, neighbourhood organization - SoNeC, community organization - SoNeC

• description: Implementation roles

  • Facilitator
  • Neighbourhood organizer
  • Circle member in charge
  • Neighbours

• for citizen initiators - challenges, cosmolocal SoNeC

• comment

  • challenges that citizens face are often lack of capacity. This can be reduced through cosmolocal pooling of the global network of SoNeCs.

• for: local government initiators - challenges

• comment

  • another challenge of a government actor as SoNeC initiator is that governments can be in conflict with community members on a variety of issues so may not attract community participation if such antagonism exists

• for: definition - SoNeC initiators

• definition: SoNeC initiators

  • a stakeholder that takes the risk of starting the SoNeC in their community

  • 3 types:

    • NGOs and existing initiatives
    • Local government
    • Citizens

• for: progress trap, Inner Development Goals, SoNeC, SRG Mapping Tool

• comment

  • nice! (emoji: pleasant surprise) I wonder if Ferial or Joseph gave some inputs here, or was the SoNeC team already familiar with progress traps?
  • SRG mapping tool and Deep Humanity are designed to reveal complexity emerging from multiple, diverse perspectives mapped together so can compliment SoNeC application of Inner Development Goals

• for: UN Inner Development Goals

• comment

  • SoNeC integrates UN Inner Development Goals.
  • This is aligned with Deep Humanity praxis

• for: definition - Collective Impact Network

• definition: Collective Impact Network

  • a network of well connected organizations and community stakeholders in the same region as the SoNeC who can work synergistically with SoNeCs to achieve common goals

• for: Indyweb application - people-centered, interpersonal

• comment

  • Indyweb indyvidual mindplex's interwoven interpersonally via trust networks

• for: recommendation - SONEC - fractal city strategy

• recommendation: SONEC fractal city strategy

  • For everyone in Living Cities Earth group, we can each start SONECs in every ward of our respective city.
  • For my city of Cape Town, there are 150+ wards
  • There are neighboring rich, middle class and disenfranchised communities
  • One of the major projects will be to develop working relationships between the disenfranchised and neighboring middle class or wealthy communities
  • Indyweb / Indranet people-centered, interpersonal open learning system can be employed

• for: question - topics - downscaled earth system boundaries and micro-economies

• question

  • what kinds of questions need to be asked in order to align the communitiy's work to stay within downscaled earth system boundaries?

• for: SONEC - Dunbar number

• comment

  • SONECs are based on Dunbar number of 150 people to maintain group intimacy

• for: good match - SONEC - TPF, good match - SONEC - downscaled earth system boundaries, good match - SONEC - doughnut economics

• for recommunitify - challenges

• challenges: recommunitify

  • to be so inclusive will require tools that help people deal with differences, preojudices and conflict

• for: community group - building social capital, recommunitifying the community, recommunitify the community

new portmanteau: recommunitify - means to put community back in the world community, to build social capital in a community that is lacking it

• for:question - SONEC - is equal voting really equal?, question - SONEC - voter education

• question

  • all may decide as equals with each other, but each human being is unique so each decision will be unique.
  • some may be better suited to make a decision than another, but if all have equal weight, that is also not fair if someone without enough education decides. How to resolve this?
  • Can the Indyweb help with this to map out the unique lifeworld (lebenswelt) of each individual to surface the unique capacities of each person, and their competencies for voting on a particular issue?
  • Voting is an important decision-making position and the voter is either informed, or if not sufficiently informed should ideally be educated to make an informed decision

• for: neighbourhood circles - question - conflict

• question: neighbourhood circles - conflict

  • what if there are existing animosities between neighbours?
  • do we extend invitations knowing there is existing animosity or potentially known abusive, racist or prejudcial members of the community?

• for: question - SONEC community governance - participation

• question: SONEC community governance - participation

  • Communities have such diversity, multimeaningverse of lifeworlds converged
  • So many different capacities, limitations and worldviewes - I would recommend the Deep Humanity multi-meaningverse is important as a framework to mitigate misinterpretation

• for: SONEC - building blocks

• building blocks - SONEC

  • Indian neighborhood parliaments - neighbourocracy
  • Sociocratic Circul Organization method (SCN - Sociocracy
    • Operationalizing Elinor Ostro's ideas of managing common resources
  • Design principles of the Commons

• for: recommendation - citizen group - accessibility

• recommendation - citizen group - accessibility

  • a big part of generating participation is feasibility and accessibility
  • combination of physical and online meetings are the most flexible, but the physical space must be accessible. Ideally within walking or biking distance. Try to eliminate any form of car travel as it is polluting and consumes precious time

• for: question - climate crisis - local solutions - scalability

• question

  • These are great starts but is there a trajectory to scaling them to replace a large part of society's GDP as a minimum but total holistic wellbeing as a final goal?:

• for: leverage point - active citizen groups

• leverage point

  • active citizen groups can get a variety of support from elected officials including
    • free suitable spaces
    • paid support staff
    • funding
    • simplification and support for any city permits
    • free marketing

• for: community groups - incentives for municipal government support

• Comment

  • Municipalities have a vested interest to partner with local community groups. They benefit because community groups can take a part of the workload off the shoulders of municipal workers including:
    • increased security leading to less crime
    • sharing un-needed items reduces waste
    • taking responsibility for public spaces can reduce fire hazard, reduce city labor costs, improve tourism

• comment

  • In a South African context
    • helping neighbors in disenfranchised communities can
      • reduce conflict
      • increase security
      • increase food security
      • save money through donation of unused items

• for: community organization - proof of concept

• comment

  • Solving a particular problem that is salient in the community is the best entry point into demonstrating the benefits of such a community organization.
  • The particular problem needs to be:
    • salient
    • feasible to solve with existing resources
  • Having solved this using the emergent, new methodologies, they can have more confidence to tackle bigger and more complex problems _ This gradually eases them into tackling rapid whole system change.

• for: James Hansen - 2023 paper, key insight - James Hansen, leverage point - emergence of new 3rd political party, leverage point - youth in politics, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics

• 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

• for: key insight- polycrisis - climate crisis - political crisis, climate crisis - requires a new political party, money in politics, climate crisis - fossil fuel lobbyists, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics, James Hansen - key insight - political action - 3rd party

• 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?

• for:May 2024 - James Hansen prediction, extreme weather event - May 2024 - Hansen 2023 paper, prediction - extreme weather 2024

• for: climate crisis - next generation nuclear - alternative to, question - James Hansen - knowledge of deep geothermal power

• climate crisis: next generation nucliear - alternative

  • question
    • Has James Hansen come across Deep Geothermal Power yet?
      • https://hyp.is/ZnzWcp_fEe6c3Kv_ggkRiQ/cascadeinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Deep-Geothermal-Superpower-version-2.0-.pdf

• for: ranked voting, third party - ranked voting, climate crisis - ranked voting, climate crisis - third party with no money from special interests

• for: quote - James Hansen, quote Benjamin Franklin, climate crisis - leverage point - political revolution

• quote

  • If we don't solve the problem in the United States, I don't see us solving the global problem
• author: James Hansen

• date: Dec 2023

• comment

  • Tipping Point network

• climate crisis - leverage points - young people - politics

• comment

  • Hansen considers politics to be the key leverage point for young people now, not protesting and raising awareness

• for: example - nuclear decarbonization - Denmakr

• for: fossil fuel phase out strategy - fee and dividend

• for James Hansen - nuclear, fossil fuel replacement - modern nuclear, question - Janes Hansen - ultradeep geothermal

• question: What are James Hansen's thoughts on ultra-deep geothermal?

• comment

  • obviously, Hansen advocates for modern nuclear since it is has the same high energy density as fossil fuels

• for: Rupert Sheldrake, morphogenetic universe, evolving natural laws, question - morphogenetic universe

• question

  • This is Sheldrake's key claim. Has there been any experiment setup to either validate or refute it yet?

• for: downscaled planetary boundaries, downscaling planetary boundaries
• annotate

• for: planetary boundaries - critique
• annotate

• for: climate crisis - multiple dimensions, polycrisis - multiple dimensions, climate crisis - good references, polycrisis - good references, polycrisis - comprehensive map, power to the people, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics

• comment / summary

  • The content on this website may be what some call "doomers" that support a narrative of unavoidable catastrophe and civilization collapse
  • The author does an excellent job of drawing together many scientifically validated research papers and news media stories on various crisis and integrates them together to support his narrative.
  • As the author states, it is still incomplete but it is comprehensive and detailed enough to use as a starting foundation to build a complex polycrisis map upon. becaues it shows the complexities of the interwoven nexus of problems we face and the massive network of feedbacks between them that makes solving any one of them alone in isolation an impossibility
  • The Cascade Institute focuses on social tipping points, complexity and polycrisis. We could synthesis a number of tools to map out and reveal effective mitigation strategies including:
    • Cascade Institute tools
    • Social tipping point tools
    • SRG mapping tool along with Indyweb / Indranet
    • Culture hacking tools
    • SIMPOL strategy
    • Downscaled Earth System Boundary tools
    • SRG Deep Humanity BEing journey tools
    • James Hansen's recommendation that the biggest leverage point is new form of governance
      • We need to rapidly emerge a new global third political party that does not take money from special interest groups
    • Progressive International comes to the same conclusion as James Hansen, that the key leverage point for rapid whole system change is radically new governance that puts power back to the hands of the people - power to the people
      • https://hyp.is/N0bxsJaaEe6Nmp_cqQcA7Q/docdrop.org/video/3dxLs-zX5xA/
    • SONEC's
    • Indyweb's people-centered, interpersonal methodology is a perfect match for SONEC circle-within-circles fractal structure
      • mention to @Gyuri
      • I've seen this circle-within-circle fractal, holonic group idea with Tim's software as well as Roberto's
  • Feebate from local governance groups (from another Doomer site - Arctic Emergency)
    • https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/feebates.html
  • What the author's narrative shows is
    • how precarious our situation is
    • how many trends are getting far worse in the immediate future
    • how we are already undercapacitated to deal with existing crisis so how will we deal with new ones that are exponentially worse?
    • all these crisis will impact our supply chains. Why are these important? Our reliance on technology is dangerous and makes us very vulnerable
    • Think of your laptop, cellphone or other electronic device that relies on a vast, complex and globally operational internet. Imagine that tidal surges wipes out the globally critical data centers located in New York. Or imagine electronic factories in China and Taiwan are wiped out due to extreme weather. How will you get or fix a broken piece of electronic equipment? We rely on each millions of specialized jobs all working smoothly in order for our laptop to continue working and communicating with each other.

• epiphany

• recommendation for new Indyweb / Indranet tools
  • independent time and date stamp tool for every online, virtual sentence we write so we recognize in a long composition when we inserted a new idea
  • ability to trace rapid trains of thought to reveal how new insights emerge from within our consciousness
• While writing this, I just recalled that we should have a way to time and date stamp every single virtual online action, like in this annotation because recall happens so nonlinearly and we won't have a hope to trace and trailmark without it. Hypothesis doesn't have time and date stamps of every sentence available to the user. So we don't know what nonlinear memory recall led to a specific sentence in an annotation. We need some independent Indyweb / Indranet tool that will do this universally. Trains of thoughts are so fragile we can forget the quick cascades very easily.

• for: James Hansen, paper - Global Warming in the Pipeline, prediction - May 2024, find - May 2024 prediction, suggestion - debate - James Hansen - Michael Mann, climate crisis - politics, climate change - politics

• Summary

  • See the Dan Miller interview in the reference below
  • The key point for SRG work in mobilizing and awakening the sleeping giant of the commons is summarized in the 3rd required action in the last sentence of his abstract:
    • "Current political crises present an opportunity for RESET, especially if young people can grasp their situation." (Bold is from SRG)

• reference

  • James Hansen Dec. 2023 interview discussing this paper
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F8Ag3UVSrlhE%2F&group=world
    • Dan Miller, who interviews Hansen and who has coauthored a paper with him, states in the interview that May 2024 is a test date for validating the paper's claims:
    • https://hyp.is/HRKEfqYAEe6lGJ_E57_9Mw/docdrop.org/video/8Ag3UVSrlhE/
    • Find
      • Identify the section in the paper that Miller is alluding to which makes the prediction about events of May 2024.
  • 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

• for: Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, book - Doppelganger - A trip into the mirror world

• for: quote - wellness industry - far right ideals

• quote

  • the underlying tenets of wellness culture also set the stage for a paranoid individualism: Neoliberal wellness culture’s message “that individuals must take charge over their own bodies as their primary sites of influence, control, and competitive edge” and “that those who don’t exercise that control deserve what they get” has turned out to be “all too compatible with far-right notions of natural hierarchies, genetic superiority, and disposable people.”

• for: adjacency - wellness industry - conspiracy theory

• adjacency between

  • wellness industry
  • conspiracy theory
• adjacency statement
  • many of the top COVID vaccine disinformation sources were wellness professionals
  • why?
  • a focused concern for wellbeing coupled with no enculturation into science results in suspicion and mistrust

• for: key insight - anti-vaxxers, key insight - conspiracy theories, key insight - maga, key insight - neoliberalism and failure at collective action

• key insight: neoliberalism and failure of collective action

  • neoliberalism's continuous assault on society has striped use off any support system, leaving us to fend for ourselves
  • when polycrisis events occur, it provokes a distrust of any attempt at government intervention
  • this is a sign of things to come when climate chaos will accelerate social breakdown

• for:Naomi Wolf - switching sides - reasons for

• reasons for; switching sides

  • due to a tendency towards growing conspiracy theory thinking, she lost her traditional audience
  • when COVID hit, she found a massive new audience who thought like her conspiracy part

• for: definition - diagonalists

-definition: diagonalist - A person who contests conventional monikers of left and right (while generally arcing toward far-right beliefs), to express ambivalence if not cynicism toward parliamentary politics, and to blend convictions about holism and even spirituality with a dogged discourse of individual liberties. At the extreme end, diagonal movements share a conviction that all power is conspiracy. - author: Callison and Slobodian

• for: definition - stranger bedfellows coalition

• for: example - political polarization, example - trumpism, example - anti- vaxxers, example - conspiracy theories, nonduality - political polarization

• example: political polarization

  • classic dualistic categories will always fail to capture the complexity
  • indyweb mindplex's could reveal the nuances

for: transition - important role of emotions

• comment
  • agreed! (thumbs up emoticon)

• for: individual/collective gestalt - ignorance of

• comment

  • This is really the equivalent of the ignorance of the individual/collective gestalt within Stop Reset Go's Deep Humanity framework.
  • When we don't realize the profound intertwingularity of the individual with the collective, and ignore the individual pole, it results in alienation.

• for: transition - emotional pain of, degrowth - emotional pain of, Kristina Bogner

• title: Coping with transition pain: An emotions perspective on phase-outs in sustainability transitions

• author
  • Kristina Bogner
  • Barbara Kump
  • Mayte Beekman
  • Julia Wittmayer

• date

• HIGHLIGHTS

  • introduce the idea of transition pain in transition-in-the-making
  • explain how emotions in transitions are
    • process-dependent,
    • culturally and socially embedded and
    • political
  • suggest a 'coping with transition pain' perspective for more integrated engagements with phase-outs

• ABSTRACT

  • With this perspective paper, we aim to raise awareness of and offer starting points for studying the role of emotions and associated behavioural responses to losses in relation to phase-outs.
  • We start from a psychological perspective and explain how
    • losses due to phasing out dominant
      • practices,
      • structures, and
      • cultures
    • may threaten core psychological needs and lead to - what we introduce as - ‘transition pain’.
  • We borrow insights from the psychological coping literature to explain that different forms of transition pain may elicit characteristic coping responses (e.g.
    • opposition,
    • escape,
    • negotiation),
  • shaping
    • individual meaning-making and
    • behaviour
  • in ongoing sustainability transitions.
  • We then expand this psychological lens and present three additional perspectives, namely, that transition pain is
    • (1) dynamic and process-dependent,
    • (2) collectively shared and socially conditioned, and
    • (3) political.
  • We discuss how a ‘coping with transition pain’ lens can contribute to a better understanding of
    • individual and collective meaning-making,
    • behaviour and agency in transitions as well as
    • a more emotion-sensitive governance of phase-outs.

• SUMMARY

  • It's good to have knowledge about the emotional aspects of transition as these challenging emotions constitute obstacles to transition.
  • It is really a letting go process. High density fossil fuels has created a high energy lifestyle that we have become use to. When we no longer have access to high energy density fossil fuels, our life has to change quite radically.
  • We are like a spoiled child that must now contend with the loss of what we took for granted. The politics of libertariansim is based on protecting our right to a high energy density lifestyle.
  • We need to now how to deal with this loss, as it is very profound

• for: question - feebates - implement within SONEC?

• for: definition - Kaizen, progress

• definition: Kaizen:

  • good change or improvement = progress
  • It's still subject to progress traps

,- annotate

• Annotate

• for: architectural plan - redesign the world, BIG architecture

• for: good idea - one global grid for renewables

• from:LinkedIn Post shared by Phoebe Coyne on low economic growth can help achieve staying under 1.5 Deg C.

• for: climate solutions - low economic growth, Jason Hickel,

• to:Resilience website - Low economic growth can help keep climate change within the 1.5°C threshold.

• for: annotate, extreme right politics - evangelical community

• annotate
• for: annotate, high energy density renewable energy

• for: science communication, climate communication

• title: Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines

• author:
  • Brian Kennedy
  • Alec Tyson
  • Cary Funk
• date:Feb. 15, 2022

• for: hard problem of consciousness - UTok, question - consciosness - UTok mind 1a, Gregg Henrique

• comment

• question - consciousness - UTok mind 1b
  • This is a great diagram and conveys a lot in a succinct manner.
  • However, I have a gut feeling that the Mind 01a is not quite the right representation
  • If language and analysis is in the Mind 3 domain, then it is combined with Mind 1b as neurocognition is itself a mental construction, rather than an object
  • All this addresses that there is a deep entanglement between many scientifically analytically rich "objects" and constructed ideas
    • Scientific objects are spoken about and mixed with non-scientifically-laden objects in the world as if they are one and the same. They are not. Scientifically-laden objects have a huge amount of analytic theory behind them. Without familiarity with that theory, the object loses its validity, especially to the lay person.
    • This could be a possible explanation of why scientists are losing their credibility in modernity and giving rise to alternative facts, misinformation and fake news
      • https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/02/15/americans-trust-in-scientists-other-groups-declines/

• for: climate crisis - role of community

• comment

  • Jane starts off a great conversation with the thesis that communities can be the key for solving the climate crisis

• for: question - can communities have real impact?

• question: can communities have real impact?

  • In this discussion, Ross is acting as the devil's advocate questioning whether communities can have real impact. He is consistent and his comments are based on evidence and experience. He challenges everyone else to prove him wrong and makes everyone go deeper to validate their positions.
  • Ross makes valid points that so far, have not been effectively addressed, mainly because nobody has thought further of how to systematically organize communities to the scale required. It's not trivial!

• for: climate crisis - debate - community action, climate crisis - discussion - community action, indyweb - curation example

• discussion: effectiveness of community action to address climate crisis

  • This is a good discussion on the effectiveness of community action to address the climate crisis.
  • It offers a diverse range of perspectives that can all be mapped using SRG trailmark protocol and then data visualized within Indyweb via cytoscape

• for: cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)

• for: progress trap - economic

• for: capitalism - heart of, adjacency - capitalism - self - othering - societal aspiration

• adjacency between

  • heart of capitalism
  • self other dualism
  • societal aspiration
• adjacency statement
  • The narrative that underlies personal gain is the socially acquired belief in a self and other dualism.
  • This is a deep psychological construct facilitated in early childhood development by what in Deep Humanity praxis is referred to as the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER at the beginning of our journey in life.
  • From that point onwards, social learning propels us to objectify the world, and in particular others. Self and other co-emerge from early childhood learning.
  • As climate scientist Kevin Anderson notes, the elite 1%, responsible for an outsized ecological footprint are the result of the dominant capitalist narrative. It constitutes the social norm of "good" for most people. It is the societal aspiration from which 1% of the world population, approximately 80 million people, surface from the 8 billion as the elites in their respective field and are compensated through financial and material reward.
    • https://hyp.is/cyUb4p4rEe6LIpeSDrCcDQ/climateuncensored.com/1485-2/
  • This societal aspiration aligns the majority of people to peer in the same direction of trying to win the game and bubble up to the 1% to indulge the rewards of a luxury lifestyle.
  • It is this same winning that will produce the next generation of 1%. They are being groomed as we speak.
  • Yet, their runaway success, and especially their reward is what can seal the fate of our civilization.
  • It is this societal aspiration role of capitalism as the dominant narrative that is the root generator of the next 1% and must be mitigated if we are to address the root of inequality.

• for: cosmolocal, cosmolocalism, cosmo-local, Paddy Le Flufy

• for: carbon emissions - within and between countries, Southern-North, Northern-South, Local North, Local South, Global North - Global South terminology - improving

• comment

  • The wealth and carbon inequality both between and within countries can be better articulated using terminology developed by Stop Reset Go
    • Southern-North
    • Northern-South
    • Local North
    • Local South

• reference

  • Expanding and Improving the Global North / Global South Terminology with Nuances of Post-Colonialism Realities in an Existential Climate Justice Context
    • https://medium.com/@gien_SRG/more-nuanced-terminology-for-post-colonialist-inequality-af2f1609635c

• for: climate crisis - resource flow, carbon budget - resource flow, carbon budget - resource redistribution

• comment

  • This is really a major change in the way resource flows
  • The high consuming countries and individuals need to drop their consumption drastically and give those to the decarbonization effort and to the disenfranchised who need to be uplifted to a state of wellbeing

• for: climate crisis - air travel, climate crisis - triage approach, climate communications - SRG suggestion - energy diet

• comment

  • Kevin's use of the term triage is aligned to a Stop Reset Go strategy of reframing the challenges in the next few years in terms of a potentially temporary energy diet
  • That may be more palatable for transition for people accustomed to the existing high carbon lifestyle culture to accept
  • The potential of developing alternative energy resources plus a shift to low energy / high efficiency lifestyle could get us to the target and provide incentive for a drastic energy consumption cut

• for: SRG energy diet, climate communications - suggestion - SRG energy diet

• comment

  • This statement once again echos the idea of a temporary energy diet as a way to reframe the challenges we face
  • There are potential clean high energy density replacements for fossil fuels but they will take time to develop. Meanwhile, an energy diet is recommended
  • This means we must adapt to a much lower intensity world, at least temporarily
  • We would need to calculate the numbers to see what such a future looks like and what steps must be taken to get there

• for: quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - elite positive feedback carbon inequality loop, climate crisis - societal aspirations, elites - societal aspirations, societal aspirations, key insight - societal aspirations

• quote

  • This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
    • societal aspirations and
    • the narratives around climate change.
  • These extend from
    • well-funded advertising to
    • pseudo-technical solutions,
    • and financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to
    • labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.

• comment

• key insight - societal aspirations
  • it is the societal aspiration of the logic of capitalism and the free market that continues to create the next generation of the 1%
  • How can the luxury industry NOT BE high carbon intensity? It's an oxymoron. High carbon is baked into the definition of luxury, and it is luxury goods and services which accelerate climate breakdown.
  • The elites have a strong feeling of entitlement. They feel they DESERVE to reward themselves with a luxury lifestyle. That aspiration and reward structure multiplied by 80 million (1% of 8 billion) is a major variable driving the climate crisis

• for: carbon inequality, question - new COP - focused on elites?

• comment

  • while COP28 fights over which nations bear what responsibility, from this perspective, there is an entirely different class of people that must be held responsible, not at the nation state level, but at the individual level. Why isn't there a COP where the elites are held responsible?

• question

  • Are we making a grave category error in holding the wrong class of people responsible? Should questions of carbon equity concern both high polluting nations AND individuals?
  • At the very least, should we formally recognize a parallel set of responsibilities and elevate that recognition to the level of COP conventions to deal with the problem?

• for: 1.5 Deg C target - 50/50 chance

• comment

  • What most people don't recognize and pay attention to is 50/50 chance that is part of the 1.5 Deg C target.
  • The world is up in arms about the 1.5 Deg C target when it ONLY GIVES US A 50/50 CHANCE!
  • These are not great odds! In fact, THESE ODDS ARE TERRIBLE! What if you were given those chances in your cancer treatment? You would be concerned, wouldn't you?
  • So what would an intervention closer to 90% chance of staying under 1.5 Deg C look like? If people consider today's intervention impossible, then a 90% chance would be beyond impossible. This is the nature of the challenge we face!

• for: too controversial, too polemic, elite discomfort, ClimateUncensored censored!, Kevin Anderson - censored

• for: climate crisis - elites, Kevin Anderson - elites, carbon emissions - elites, adjacency - elites - carbon inequality - incentives - luxury - capitalism

• title: A Habitable Earth Can No Longer Afford The Rich – And That Could Mean Me And You

• author: Kevin Anderson

• date: Nov. 29, 2023

• comment

• adjacency between
  • elites
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • incentives
  • double bind
  • wicked problem
  • inequality
  • carbon inequality
  • luxury industry
• adjacency statement
  • This article was pulled by "The Conversation" for being too controversial
  • It addresses the double-bind / wicked problems that we find ourselves in.
  • It's not just that the elites that are the highest per capita polluters, but
    • it is an indictment of the entire philosophy and worldview of capitalism and the market economy which produces winners and losers and
    • the winners reap enormous resource benefits, including being able to afford luxury items as rewards which constitute the largest ecological footprint of all
  • while at any one time, there is always a minority of the 1%, who hold the most outsized ecological footprint of all, the logic that produced that 1% also serves as the incentives for the majority of the 99%, who because of the inherent precarity created by capitalism, will fight and struggle to become part of that 1%
  • So while one generation of the 1% die off, a new generation is born and created by the incentive structure of scarcity and precarity.
  • In this sense, capitalism has its own self-reinforcing, positive feedback loop that keeps the masses of the disenfranchised aspiring to the same high resource and ecological footprint, luxury lifestyle
  • Look at the culture industry of sports, entertainment, movies, music, TV, etc. and of business in general. The leaders of these and ALL fields are celebrated as heros and they all reward themselves with an ultra-high carbon intensity, luxury lifestyle.
  • Unless we do more than simply demonize the current set of elites, and recognize the root cause and change the incentive structure itself, we will only ever deal with the symptom and not the problem, and continue to generate the next generation of elites
  • The luxury lifestyle industry is a important role-player in the self-reinforcing feedback loop

• for: academic communication to the public - importance, elites - two types, key insight - elites, key insight - science communication

• comment

• key insight

  • Elites are necessary in every society
  • Historically, people who strongly believe that the current elites aren't necessary or are harmful often become the revolutionaries who become the new elites
  • elites need to speak in their own specialist language to each other but there are two kinds of elites
    • those who serve society
    • those who serve themselves
    • often, we have fox in sheep's clothing - elites who serve themselves but disguise themselves in the language of elites who serve others in order to gain access to power ,
    • we normally think of wealthy people as elites, but Harari classifies scientists as also a kind of elite
  • elites may be necessary but
    • We are caught in a double bind, a wicked problem as elites are also the world's greatest per capita energy consumers and their outsized ecological, consumption and energy footprint is now a existential threat to the survival of our species

• references

  • Kevin Anderson: A Habitable Earth Can No Longer Afford The Rich – And That Could Mean Me And You
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimateuncensored.com%2F1485-2%2F&group=world
  • The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41560-021-00900-y&group=world
  • Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS2666791622000252&group=world

• for: insight - history - complexity, bad metaphor - chain of events

• insight: complexity and history

  • chain of events is a bad metaphor for things that occur in history
  • the complexity of history is that many causes come together too being about an event
  • likewise, when that event occurs, it is the cause of many different consequences
  • linear vs systems thinking

• adjacency between

  • history
  • emptiness
  • Indra's net
• adjacency statement
  • history reflects emptiness
  • Indra's net extended into historical events

• for: insight - conservative vs liberal - speed of sdopting social norm

• insight

  • liberals are voted in to speed up adoption of a new social -
  • conservatives are voted in to slow down the acceptance of a social norm
  • paradoxically, humans have both a conservative and a liberal nature. We naturally have a tendency to both conserve and to try new things.

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari - AI progress trap, progress trap - AI, quote - progress trap

• quote it is extremely dangerous to create such an autonomous agent when we do not know how to control it, when we can't ensure that it will not escape our control ad start making decisions and creating new things which will harm us instead of benefit us

• author: Yuval Noah Harari
• date 2023

• for: academic communication - need to translate to lay audience, science communication - need to translate to lay audience

• for: AI - lack feelings

• for: question - Yuval Noah Harari - How do you address your critics?

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari, quote - storytelling, quote - scientific storytelling, science communication, climate communication

• key insight

• quote

  • If we want to see science having a deeper impact on society and politics, it's crucial that we have also scientific storytelling

• comment

  • I would just add that it should be COMPELLING scientific storytelling

• for: book - Sapiens - origin story

• for: leverage point - collaboration, human superpower - collaboration, quote - collaboration, quote - cooperation

• quote the superpower of our species is not individual genius, it's the ability to cooperate in large numbers.

• author: Yval Noah Harari
• date: 2023

• for: conspiracy theories - truth is much worse

• for: earth system boundaries - downscaled to cities, earth system boundaries for cities, Xuemei Bai - downscaled earth system boundaries

• comment

  • this paper is currently in review but provides earth system boundaries for cities

• for: stats - CCS, Kevin Anderson - CCS stats

• stats

  • actually, IEA shows that we are currently capturing 45 million tons currently (Dec 2023)
  • 45 million tons captured in 2021 (IEA CCS 2021)
  • out of 36.3 billion tonnes emitted (IEA, 2021)
  • 0.124% captured in 2021 and
  • 3x current rate at 125 Mt/yr by 2030
  • far from enough

• reference

  • https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-co2-emissions-in-2021-2
  • https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-storage

• for: stats - CCS, stats - CCUS

• stats

  • 125 Mt / year by 2030

• for: stats - CCS 2021, CCUS - 2021

• stats

  • CCS / CCUS in 2021: 45 Mt CO2

• for: downscaled planetary boundaries, planetary boundary cities, ARUP - planetary boundary design

• comment

  • There is no threshold information, just general design methods

• for: AI, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, brain gel, AI - gel computer

• title: A general-purpose organic gel computer that learns by itself

• author
  • Anirban Bandyopadhyay
  • Pathik Sahoo
  • et al.
• date: Dec. 6, 2023
• publication: IOPScience

• DOI: 10.1088/2634-4386/ad0fec

• ABSTRACT

  • To build energy minimized superstructures, self-assembling molecules explore astronomical options, colliding ∼10 to 9th power molecules s to power−1. -Thusfar, no computer has used it fully to optimize choices and execute advanced computational theories only by synthesizing supramolecules.
  • To realize it,
    • first, we remotely re-wrote the problem in a language that supramolecular synthesis comprehends.
    • Then, all-chemical neural network synthesizes one helical nanowire for one periodic event. These nanowires self-assemble into gel fibers mapping intricate relations between periodic events in any-data-type,
    • the output is read instantly from optical hologram.
    • Problem-wise, self-assembling layers or neural network depth is optimized to chemically simulate theories discovering invariants for learning.
    • Subsequently, synthesis alone solves classification, feature learning problems instantly with single shot training.
    • Reusable gel begins general-purpose computing that would chemically invent suitable models for problem-specific unsupervised learning. Irrespective of complexity,
      • keeping fixed computing time and power, gel promises a toxic-hardware-free world.

• for: Husserl, epoche, phenomenology, adjacency - epoche - science

• for: annotate, urban planning, downscaled planetary boundaries, downscale earth system boundaries

• for: philosophy - of wonder, Howard L. Parsons, phenomenology - wonder, wonder - theory of

• title: A Philosophy of Wonder

• author: Howard L. Parsons
• date: Sept, 1969

• for: polycrisis wartime mobilization, climate crisis wartime mobilization, 2024 extreme weather - wartime mobilization opportunity

• key insight

• adjacency between
  • real COVID mobilization
  • imagined future climate crisis wartime mobilization

• adjacency statement

  • The rapid response to the COVID pandemic was a real life case of a wartime scale mobilization in a very short time. This shows that it is possible. We need to see if we can strive for this for climate change. If 2024 becomes the year of extreme weather due to El Nino, then we could use it as an opportunity for a wartime mobilization

  • one good thing about the COVID pandemic is that it did show that a rapid wartime mobilization is possible, because it did kind of happened during COVID

• for: climate crisis - Canada - surprising positive public opinion shift

• for climate change - wartime mobilization, interview - Seth Klein - A Good War, polycrisis - conflict, climate crisis - conflict, Naomi Klein - brother

• summary

  • An interview with activist Seth Klein on his book: A Good War. Klein studied how WWI and WWII stimulated a rapid mobilization of Canada with an eye to translating the same methods to combating climate change.

• for: Kevin Anderson, transition, climate equity, climate justice, climate justice - Kevin Anderson, carbon inequality - Kevin Anderson, life within planetary boundaries, lifestyle within planetary boundaries - elites, climate crisis - Kevin Anderson

• summary

  • Kevin offers a picture of what a world within the stable climate planetary boundary would look like for the wealthy of the planet.

• for: science and religion, flat earth misconception, DH, Deep Humanity - science and religion - historical relationship

• summary

  • Dutch historian Jochem Boodt explains how fake news isn't something new, but as old as the history books!
  • Science and religion were not antagonist in early Western history, as is believed today. This was fake news fabricated in a fascinating way.
  • He uses the example of the common misconception that before Columbus, people thought the earth was flat.

• for: climate crisis - Kevin Anderson
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• for: fossil fuel phase out, fossil fuel phase down, COP28 controversy, Sultan Al Jaber controversy, fossil fuel demand phase out, Nafeez Ahmed - phase out fossil fuel demand, carbon colonialism, colonialism - climate crisis

• title: A Message to White Environmentalists: Demanding a Fossil Fuel Phase Out is Not Enough

• author: Nafeez Ahmed
• date: Dec 6, 2023
• publication: Byline Times

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• for: evolutionary biology, big history, DH, Deep Humanity, theories of consciousness, ESP project, Earth Species Project, Michael Levin, animal communication, symbiocene

• title: The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

• author: Joseph LeDoux
• date: Jan. 2023

• doi: 0.1080/09515089.2022.2160311

• ABSTRACT

  • The essence of who we are depends on our brains.
  • They enable us to think, to
    • feel joy and sorrow,
    • communicate through speech,
    • reflect on the moments of our lives, and to
      • anticipate,
      • plan for, and
      • worry about our imagined futures.
  • Although some of our abilities are comparatively new, key features of our behavior have deep roots that can be traced to the beginning of life.
  • By following the story of behavior, step-by-step, over its roughly four-billion-year trajectory,
    • we come to understand both
      • how similar we are to all organisms that have ever lived, and
      • how different we are from even our closest animal relatives.
  • We care about our differences because they are ours. But differences do not make us superior; they simply make us different.

• comment

  • good article to contribute to a narrative of the symbiocene and a shift of humanity to belonging to nature as one species, instead of dominating nature as the apex species
• question
  • @Gyuri, Could indranet search algorithm have made the connection between this article and the symbiocene artilces in my mindplex had I not explicitly made the associations manually through my tags? It needs to be able to do this
• Also interesting to see how this materialistic outlook of consciousness
  • which is similiar to the Earth Species Project work and Michael Levin's work on synthesizing new laboratory life forms to answer evolutionary questions about intelligence
• relates to nonmaterial ideas about consciousness

• for: climate crisis - psychology - hope
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• for: climate crisis - intervention - switch banks, project drawdown - switch banks