Rob Jackson is to be applauded for trying. Not sure we can muster an effort as big as nature. The Global Methane Pledge is already ambitious.
Earth will likely become inhabitable in a few decades.
We are addicted to growth and shareholder value maximization. The mass mobilization and sweeping changes that would be required to solve this crisis cannot happen, because the people in power are satisfied with the status quo. By now commercialization became the dominant culture. The only incentive left is wealth creation through exploitation and predation. This is a ship that cannot be turned around because nobody is able to say no to the short-term opportunities.
This puts the pressure on technological innovation getting us out of this predicament, but unfortunately physics puts a limit on what can be accomplished. The more we wait the more we need to innovate, until a point where nothing can be done thermodynamically speaking.
At some point we will give up on global solutions and start concentrating on local ones. That will be exactly when we are no longer a civilization, just a bunch of survivors trying to hold on to the planks.
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We are addicted to growth and shareholder value maximization. The mass mobilization and sweeping changes that would be required to solve this crisis cannot happen, because the people in power are satisfied with the status quo. By now commercialization became the dominant culture. The only incentive left is wealth creation through exploitation and predation. This is a ship that cannot be turned around because nobody is able to say no to the short-term opportunities.
This puts the pressure on technological innovation getting us out of this predicament, but unfortunately physics puts a limit on what can be accomplished. The more we wait the more we need to innovate, until a point where nothing can be done thermodynamically speaking.
At some point we will give up on global solutions and start concentrating on local ones. That will be exactly when we are no longer a civilization, just a bunch of survivors trying to hold on to the planks.