for - resource - climate change performance index - how well a city is adapted to the climate crisis

for - definition - human climate niche

for - adjacency - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - elbow doesn't bend backwards - quote - Michael Levin - illusion

adjacency - between - sensory bubble - umwelt - living in a simulation - Daisetz Suzuki - the elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency statement - In the Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, the illusory body training is to experience both one's body and reality as an illusion in the sense that nothing is static and fixed - From this perspective, we are all temporary states of convergence of the recirculating elements of emptiness - Daisetz Suzuki, the enlightened Japanese Zen monk who is credited to be one of the ones who brought Zen to the West said that when he experienced Kensho, he could suddenly understand the puzzling koan "The elbow does not bend backwards" with great clarity. - Form is a concentration and temporary consolidation of emptiness, the limitations inherent in any form does not denigrate is absolute origins from unlimited emptiness - The Heart Sutra expresses the equivalence of form and emptiness, finite and infinite. - In Deep Humanity, we have a saying: - To be or not to be - that is the question - To be AND not to be - that is the answer

• Quote: Michael Levin
  • Sometimes people ask me "is it possible that we're living in a simulation?
    • and and if you think about it it's not just possible it's guaranteed.
  • There's no other way it could possibly be
  • If you think about what is the opposite of that
    • the opposite of that is that you somehow have a physically embodied cognitive structure that
      • is able to,
      • is not limited in its sensory perceptions
      • is not limited in the amount of memory and computations
  • All of us are limited beings
  • All of us evolved under constraints of
    • time
    • energy and
    • everything else -We see a tiny, little, narrow slit in the electromagnetic spectrum
  • We have a few other things
    • like chemical senses of things that are right there on your tongue and
    • on your fingers and so on
    • we have a little bit of memory
    • we have this wet squishy substrate
      • that's very error prone and
      • needs to be constantly maintained
    • and all our memories have to be the actively rewritten
    • We were evolved under specific pressures under those conditions
  • Who could possibly think that that we are not living in some sort of very specific representation of reality
    • that is limited in many ways
  • That's not to say
    • it isn't adaptive and that
    • Donald Hoffman would say that in many ways it is completely wrong
  • I I think there's probably some truth to that
    • but in other ways I think the the big lesson from all this is that
    • we are all a brain and a vat
  • Of course we are a brain sitting inside this thing that gives us various stimuli
  • We try to make the best sense of it that we can and creatures will adapt to
  • This is why you can do
    • sensory substitution and
    • sensory augmentation and why
    • you can have neurons in the dish that play Pong
  • but these systems will try to make sense of whatever world they're given
    • in whatever configuration they have and we do the same
  • So yeah absolutely it's an illusion
    • but it's not an illusion in the sense that there is some other way to have perfect direct perception of some underlying reality
  • When we say it's an illusion or a simulation
    • It just acknowledges the fact that we are finite limited beings
    • whose job it is to make the best sense we can
    • using the hardware that we have
    • of what's been going on up until now and what we predict is going to be going on
  • I don't know of another story that could possibly make sense

for - definition - proto-cognitive panpsychism

definition - proto-cognitive panpsychism - this holds that physics itself is an edge phenomena of a much deeper underlying reality which has an element of cognition

for - resonates with - existing meme

resonates with - existing meme - yesterday's revolutionaries become today's old guard

• What I tell my students just be very careful with people who are
  • very smart and
  • very successful
• They know their stuff they're not necessarily calibrated on your stuff

comment - Lebenswelt and multimeaningverse

for - adjacency between - Michael Levin - Mark Solms - adjacency statement - The work of Michael and Mark compliment each other

for - definition - consciousness - active inference

definition - consciousness - active inference - In Levin's opinion, one important aspect of defining consciousness that seems generally overlooked is outputs - actions - active inference is a field that deals with the actions that result from intelligence - currently, there is a greater focus on the input / perception side of consciousness but not as strong a focus on the output / action side

for - definition - diverse intelligence

definition - diverse intelligence - developing a framework that encompasses the wide field of intelligence of living systems

for: - adjacency - between - cognitive cone - bodhisattva -adjacency statement - Bodhisattva could be such a being that Michael Levin refers to

• If you're some some alien species
• that has the ability to literally care about every other being on your planet right in the linear range
  • I don't think humans can do that but
• if there is a creature somewhere that has that level of advance
  • where they can actually have care and compassion for every being and they work towards it
  • they would have a much larger cognitively cone than we do you know more more advanced in that way

for: purpose - computational boundary of self - it's utility is to have one idea that can help define intelligence non-anthropomorphically, not just of humans

for - question - identity - individual cell vs multicellular organism

question - identity - individual cell vs multicellular organism - This is a fascinating question as it looks at our evolutionarily composite nature - as a multi-scale competency architecture - Certainly our ordinary consciousness operates as the governance system for the entire population of collaborating cells and microbes - but can we actually directly identify with each individual cell or microbe in this vast integrated collection? - how does Levin's computational boundary of self help to shed light on this question?

for - key insight - multicellularity - memory wiping

• key insight
  • individuals have information in their memories about survival
  • when they merge and join, they pool their information and you can't tell whose memories came from whom initially
  • this memory wiping is a key aspect of multcellularity

investigate - salience of memory wiping for multicellularity - This is a very important biological behavior. - Perform a literature review to understand examples of this

question - biological memory wiping - can it be extrapolated to social superorganism?

for - individual or collective behavior - slime mold - prisoner's dilemma and slime molds - slime molds - me vs we - me vs we - slime molds - adjacency - slime molds - me vs we - multicellular organisms

• quote
  • You have the slime mold and you put a piece of oat which the Slime wants to eat and
  • it starts to crawl towards that oat and then
  • What you can do is you can take a razor blade and just cut off that leading edge
    • the little piece of it that's moving towards the oat
  • Now as soon as you've done that
  • that little piece is a new individual and
  • it has a decision to make
    • it can go in and get the oat and exploit that resource and not have to share it with this giant mass of faizaram that's back here or
    • it can first merge back and connect back to the original mass
      • because they can reconnect quite easily and then they go get the oat
  • Now the thing is that the the payoff Matrix looks quite different because
  • when it's by itself it can do this calculus of "well, it's better for me to go get the food instead of and not share it with this other thing"
  • but as soon as you connect, that payoff Matrix changes because there is no me and you
    • there's just we and at that point it doesn't make any sense to the fact that
    • you can't defect against yourself so that payoff table of actions and consequences looks quite different
    • because some of the actions change the number of players and
    • that's really weird

adjacency between - slime molds - me vs we -multicellular organisms - social superorganism and societal breakdown - adjacency statement - A simple slime mold experiment could make an excellent BEing journey - to demonstrate how multicellular beings operate through higher order organizational principle of collaboration that - keeps cells aligned with a common purpose, - but that each cellular unit also comes equipped with - an evolutionarily inherited legacy of individual control system - normally, the evolutionarily later and higher order collaborative signaling that keeps the multi-cellular being unified overrides the lower order, evolutionarily more primitive autonomous cellular control system - however, pathological conditions can occur that disrupt the collaborative signaling, causing an override condition, and individual cells to revert back to their more primitive legacy survival system - The same principles happen at a societal level. - In a healthy, well-functioning society, the collaborative signaling keeps the society together - but if it is severely disrupted, social order breakdown ensues and - individual human beings and small groups resort to individual survival behavior

for - Michael Levin - Developmental biology - evolutionary biology

for - Micheal Levin - developmental biology - evolutionary biology - cellular intelligence

for - adjacency between - primary sense of cellular metabolism - experiences of deep contemplative practice of Rainbow Body - adjacency statement - As per Father Francis Tiso's research into the Tibetan deep contemplative Dzogchen phenomena of Rainbow Body at the time of death as well as rigpa, Trekcho and Togal, he speculates that - such deep contemplations can potentially result in a primary sense of cellular and even subatomic processes taking place within the human body. - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FsDyu39FCAMk%2F&group=world - It seems that the multi-scale competency architecture would be a good scientific framework to explore these questions.

So we're good with three-dimensional space, - but imagine if we had a primary sense of our own blood chemistry. - If you could feel your blood chemistry - the way that you currently see and smell and taste things that are around you, - I think we would have absolutely no problem having an intuitive understanding - of physiological-state space - the way we do for three-dimensional space.

claim - Lifetime practitioners of Tibetan meditation claim they have a primary sensation of their own impending death suggestion - Suggest to Michael Levin to investigate such phenomena from a multi-scale competency architecture perspective - What else can the expert meditators directly experience? And how do they achieve this? How can deep contemplative practice result in such profound experiences? Would expert meditators resonate with Levin's framework?

for - question - what do we do next? - investigate - why "what do we do next?" is salient

for - quote - Michael Levin - quote - Human INTERBeCOMing

• quote
  • ()
    • the contents of your mind,
    • your self model,
    • your model of the outside world,
    • where the boundary between you and the outside world is
      • so where do you end and the outside world begins
  • all of these things are constantly being constructed and created.

validation for - Human INTERBeCOMing - Levin validates Deep Humanity redefinition of human being to human INTERbeCOMing, as a verb, and ongoing evolutionary process rather than a fixed, static object

for - key insight - scientific challenge - how deep contemplation can dramatically affect biochemistry - quote - how deep contemplation can dramatically affect biochemistry - question - deep contemplation can dramatically affect biochemistry

for - Rainbow body - Deep Humanity - superorganism - multi-level communication - adjacency between - contemplative practice - direct experience of body's cellular activity

summary - Father Tiso and his catholic lineage combined with scholarship in Tibetan studies places him in a unique position for interfaith dialogue - His research interest in investigating the extraordinary and unexplained Tibetan meditation phenomena of Rainbow Body manifested by the greatest practitioners at the time of death (including contemporary ones) sheds light on the Rainbow Body phenomena in many spiritual traditions and challenges the scientific community to come up with an explanation for it. - If scientifically proven true, it offers an extraordinary possibility of human potential - Contemplation could be the practice technique that could directly bridge normal human consciousness with the microscopic world around us, which to date, is only accessible through scientific instrumentation.

question - Does deep contemplative practice offers a direct access to the microscopic reality? - If so, how does it accomplish this direct communication with human cells, and indeed, even the universe itself? - Father Tiso shares centuries old recorded visual drawings of experiences reported by Rainbow Body practitioners and speculates whether these drawings represent direct experience of the cellular scale of our human form - Indeed, could it even be at the quantum level of experience, since rainbows are an optical phenomenal?

for - Buddhist 16th century wall paintings

for - claim - painting of meditation experience - direct experience of cells of body

claim - painting of meditation experience - direct experience of cells in body <br /> - This is an extraordinary claim and would imply we could actually experience our bodies at a microscopic level

for - description - solar gazing

description - solar gazing - yogi performs this as a practice that moves from Trekcho to Togal - There is a youtube neuroscientists who advocates for indirect sungazing for 5 min. at sunrise (reference)

for - key insight - adjacency between - dzogchen training - trekcho - cutting through training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekch%C3%B6 - togal - https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php? title=T%C3%B6gal - cognitive science - evolutionary biology - adjacency statement - It is very interesting that we find parallels between - Dzogchen practice and - our consciousness's attempt to overcome the limits of its own perceptions of reality

for - definition - Dzogchen - Great Perfection

• definition - Dzogchen - The Great Perfection
• Dzogchen is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism
  • The Great Perfection claims that everything is pure from the beginning
  • every moment is an emanation of a temporal origin

for - claim - father Tiso could be a key to depolarising global society - because he straddles two major religious traditions - adjacency - human superorganism - intra-level communications - yogic experiences

for - stats - spiritual but not religious

stats - spiritual but not religious - Pew research study shows 22% of Americans now identify as spiritual but not religious - Only 11% say that are involved in a religious community

for - definition - spiritual nones

for - spiritual collectives - non-dogmatic spirituality

summary adjacency between - spiritual collectives - Deep Humanity - Adjacency statement - There is a growing movement of people disenchanted with the contradictions, trauma or dogma of many mainstream religions. - Evangelical pastors and followers are converting to a more open and inclusive spiritual practice. - This growing movement has close resemblance to Deep Humanity in its openess to all religions and spiritual practices as long as they do not bring harm, and the lack of dogmatism. - There could be a good opportunity for synergies since spiritual collectives take an open source / commons approach to spiritual practice wherein we collaborate to surface the best principles to live by. - From a commons / open source perspective, we give this the name - open source religion - open source spirituality

for - key insight - spiritual collectives - bound by values instead of beliefs

for - definition - exvangelical - ex evangelical practitioner

for - definition - spiritual collective

for - definition - practical spirituality

for - Pastor Cody Deese - Vining Lake spiritual collective

for - progress trap - tires - micro plastic p pollution

for - social transition - rapid whole system change - cosmolocal - cosmo-local - anywheres - everywheres - commons - Michel Bauwens - P2P Foundation - somewheres - meme - glocalization - meme - cosmos-localization

summary - A good article introducing cosmo-localism as a logical vasilation of failed markets and states, swinging the pendulum back to the commons as a necessary precursor to rapid whole system change

for - investigate - Rene Girard - mimetic desire - I don't quite understand how this leads to cancel culture

for - cosmo local identity - new social glue - cosmo local identity - new social laminin

• What does contributing to a common mean?

• Take permaculture as an example:

  • you stand with your feet in the mud, a metaphor for reconnecting with the land and the earth, without whose cultivation no one can survive.
  • The permaculturists’ heart is in their local community, but
    • their brain and
    • the other part of their heart
  • are in the commons of global permaculture.
  • They have extended their identity beyond the local,
    • acquiring a trans-local and trans-national identity.
  • They haven’t done so through an alienating concept of corporate globalisation,
    • like an uprooted elite individual,
  • but through deep participation in a true constructive community,
    • which is helping to solve the metacrisis that alienates most of us.
• Cosmolocalism is synonymous with deep-rooted but extremely rapid global innovation

for - definition - commons

for - annotate

for - climate crisis - U.S. intra-country migration - key insight - climate migration - towards disaster zones

for - quote - commonality between far left and far right - key insight

If there’s a commonality between far Left and far Right, says Lyons,

• it’s a common opposition to the status quo
  • but one that’s based on fundamentally different reasons.

for - stats - Africa - food insecurity - adjancency - food colonialism - food insecurity - food dependency

stats - food insecurity - 20 plant species make up 90% of food consumed in Africa - 3 crops introduced by the Green Revolution make up 60% of all calories consumed - wheat - maize - rice

• African countries have become reliant on a few food items.

• Just 20 plant species now provide 90% of our food, with three

  • wheat,
  • maize and
  • rice

accounting for 60% of all calories consumed on the continent and globally.

• This deprives the continent of diverse food sources,

at the very time when research has found

massive food and nutrition insecurity in Africa.

• By 2020, about 20% of the continent’s population (281.6 million) faced hunger.
• This figure is likely to have increased,
  • given the impacts of successive droughts, floods and COVID-19.

Yet historically, Africa had

- 30,000 edible plant species, and 
- 7,000 were traditionally cultivated or foraged for food.

The continent is a treasure trove of agrobiodiversity (a diversity of types of crops and animals) and

• its countries could easily feed themselves.

for - energy futures.South Africa.IRP inaccuracies

for - climate crisis - food production impacts - stats - high emissions scenario -food production

stats - high emissions scenario - over 30% of food crop production and animal production impacted - mostly around equator

from - Linked In - https://hyp.is/umZ5yrMLEe6Y4W-fLtvt_w/www.linkedin.com/posts/thaliacoaching_the-foods-the-world-will-lose-to-climate-activity-7151258292344803329-23m8/

to - https://www.wired.com/story/the-foods-the-world-will-lose-to-climate-change/ for - climate crisis - food production impact

for - nature-based carbon sequestration - reestablish whale populations - Nate Hagen - The Great Simplification - David King - climate crisis - solutions - progress trap - overfishing - whales

for - snowflake yeast

"snowflake yeast," was able to evolve multicellularity over 3,000 generations.

reference - https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/current-projects/

for - evolution - multicellular - MuLTEE

for - progress trap - micro plastic in bottled water

annotate

for: - climate crisis - local approach, bottom up approach - cosmolocal - climate crisis

Unless UN climate conferences are - fully reformed to be more - inclusive, - ambitious and - effective,

the world will fail - to hold warming to levels that

science says are - compatible with human life - on a healthy planet.

• for: meme - make it expensive to destroy the planet, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - make it expensive to destroy the planet, key insight - make it expensive to destroy the planet

• key insight

• meme
• quote: Johan Rockstrom
  • we need to make the transition acceptable and attractive for the vast majority of citizens, and the only way to do that, is to make the changes easy to adopt. This requires strong engagement with society at large, and policies that make sustainable life choices not only easier, but also cheaper and more attractive. Or, put it the other way around, it must be more expensive to destroy the planet or the health of our fellow citizens".

• for: quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - positive tipping points, quote - social tipping points, social tipping points, stop, positive tipping points

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • We need to trigger exponential change across sectors and geographies by phasing out fossil fuels while taking advantage of positive social and economic tipping points.

• for: quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - uncertainty at 1.5 Deg C for years

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • now we are facing a high risk of overshooting 1.5°C - at best - for several decades. Currently, we must admit that we do not know what the consequences are of such an overshoot, i.e., we do not know how long time the big tipping point systems - like the Gulf Stream or the Coral Reef systems, can cope with high risk temperatures above 1.5°C.

• for: COP - suggestion for improvement

• suggestion for improvement: COP

  • "the focus of every Cop should not be at the whim of the Presidency
    • every Cop should focus on all areas where emissions reductions are needed.
  • A system of smaller results-based meetings that focus on delivery, accountability, alignment with science, and safeguarding social justice is needed".

• for: climate mitigation, stats - 40% reduction by 2030, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - fossil fuel phase out

• quote: Johan Rockstrom

  • All stakeholders in the world must now act according to the agreed Cop28 output, and deliver on the CopP28 Global Stocktake Agreement,
    • which means rapidly transitioning away from oil, coal and gas, aiming at more than 40% reductions by 2030
• Date: Dec 31, 2023

• for: climate denial - insurance companies will make everyone pay, climate deniers - will pay carbon tax - via insurance, carbon tax - climate deniers

• for: health, David Sinclair, longevity tips, adjacency - lifestyle choices - diet - climate crisis - biodiversity crisis

• SUMMARY

  • The main tips for staying healthy from a lifetime of longevity research on this video.

• adjacency between

  • lifestyle choices
• personal diet
  • climate crisis
  • biodiversity crisis
• adjacency statement:
  • Promoting this kind of diet and lifestyle can have enormous benefits on climate crisis as well.
  • One could write a paper about the crossover benefits to climate and biodiversity crisis.

• for: elites - secret hotel parties

• for: history - major societal sectors

• history: major societal sectors

  • government - early civilization
  • (organized) business - 16th century
  • NGO - 19th century

• for: collaborative commons, rapid whole system change - governance, 3rd party, TPF, power2thepeople political power, criminal power

-SUMMARY - A good article that - briefly traced the roots of the the major categories of power in modernity: - government - business - NGOs - and provides an argument for the emergence of a 4th power - the collaborative commons - it provide a model for the collaborative commons and a system diagram showing the various parts - I've critique I raise it that since it could only emerge within the technological mileau of the internet, it cannot be based upon an archaic, corporate and centralized power be structure. Even cryptocurrency is still centralized and there is generally a single point of failure. - When more important than decentralisation however, is that the current web id not people-centered and intertwingled with interpersonal - a necessary condition for a collaborative commons is their what we call a "flipped" web. - The indyweb and Indranet are being designed as an open function opens learning ecosystem for humanity at the level of trust networks - inter-operating with other larger systems, it can pay a role in creating the flipped web which can provide the human communication media for a collaborative commons

• comment

  • There night also be a bother 4th category of power not me- criminal mentioned - criminal power

• epiphany: new slogan

  • power2thepeople has a double meaning
    • political power
    • physical power
  • since modern society runs on physical power, we need the people too control it rather than serving a small group of financial elites

• for: TPF, SoNeC, LCE, community hubs, 3rd party

• for: canonical unit, collaborative commons - missing part - open learning commons, question - process trap - natural capital

• comment

  • in this context, indyweb and Indranet are not the canonical unit, but then, it seems the model is fundamentally missing the functionality provided but the Indyweb and Indranet, which is and open learning system.
  • without such an open learning system that captures the essence of his humans learn, the activity of problem-solving cannot be properly contextualised, along with all of limitations leading to progress traps.
  • The entire approach of posing a problem, then solving it is inherently limited due to the fractal intertwingularity of reality.

• question: progress trap - natural capital

  • It is important to be aware that there is a real potential for a progress trap to emerge here, as any metric is liable to be abused

• for: collaborative commons - parts, question - collaborative commons - glue - Indyweb - Indranet, collaborative commons canonical unit - Indyweb - Indranet

• parts: collaborative commons

  • capital
  • metrics - to measure outputs
  • cryptocurrency
  • governance

• question: collaborative commons glue

  • Could Indyweb and Indranet be the open source glue that holds the 4 parts of the collaborative commons together?

• for: collaborative commons - technological dependence

• comment

  • since the collaborative commons emerged from the internet, it is obviously dependent on and made possible by ICT technologies

• for: adjacency - problem solving - governance sectors - cultural evolution

• adjacency between

  • governance sectors
  • problem solving
  • cultural evolution
• adjacency statement
  • Governance sectors culturally evolved to reflect different problem-solving approaches

• 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?