The Great Disruption

Erect a wind turbine or solar plant in every town

The only source of gain is that when one person does better than a peer, that person feels better. So getting more money and stuff than whomever you compare yourself to does bring a level of satisfaction because it increases your self-worth. But the net gain for society remains at zero, with all of us just switching places around inside the system

The natural ones are about how the environment behaves as a system, with interconnectedness, tipping points, and feedback loops. Examples are issues like the ocean’s absorption of CO2 emissions causing acidification, which can undermine marine life, then accelerating the collapse of fisheries.

It may seem like a fair bit to cope with—the economic crisis of the Great Disruption, followed by the one-degree war and the complete transformation of the global economy to zero net carbon, all happening in parallel to a global realignment of geopolitical power, accompanied by widespread military and social conflict from ecosystem breakdown. All t

One example is cap-and-trade systems on key resources.

Launch a government- and community-led “shop less, live more” campaign

criteria to consider technologies against. For energy, mine are simple. They have to deliver close to zero CO2 emissions, they should be as safe as we can afford, they should be able to be rolled out at scale quickly, and they should be considered in a systems context. The latter means we should consider factors like our quality of life, our geopol

One of these is that when systems hit their physical limits, they tend not to do so smoothly but are volatile and chaotic.

Prepare for biopower with CCS

Create huge wind and solar farms in suitable locations