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scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will

“The treaty will not be renewed,” Arkady said flatly. “It will take something much more radical to stop these people, John. Direct action—yes, don’t you look so unbelieving! Seizure of some property, or of the communication sys-tem—the institution of our own set of laws, backed by everyone here, out in the streets—yes, John, yes! It will come to

Communal tenure, ‘open-field’ principles, periodic redistribution of plots and co-operative management of pasture are not particularly exceptional and were often practised

fiat money even really is: It is a fungible pan-bank liability.

The ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer has recently advocated for “an economy of abundance.”[20] Choosing abundance, at once a perspective and a legislative platform, a shift in vision and in policy design, means recognizing that this country has a profusion of resources—enough land and capital to go around—and that pretending otherwise is a farce. “I

Or I can find a traditional society that uses herbs and shamanic techniques for healing, destroy their culture and make them dependent on pharmaceutical medicine that they must purchase, evict them from their land so they cannot be subsistence farmers and must buy food, and clear the land and hire them on a banana plantation—and I have made the