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Look down, we stand on the bones of thousands of generations past.

Look up, an empty sky. Fermi's potential dark future.

We stand on the cusp of time, but we waste it by busying ourselves manipulating each other over profit whilst our planet dies.

We instinctively look outward for solutions. Startup culture prophets gaslight us with hype cycles of ecomodern solutions, electric vehicles and promises of space, but here back on earth Jevons Paradox and inequality keep us grounded in reality.

The only way we can solve our issues is to first look inward and be mindful of our psychopharmacology, popular delusions, thought paradoxes, cognitive biases, heuristics and psychological fallacies. If we know ourselves better we will be able to compensate for the bottle end lenses by which we all see the universe. Once through the smog, we can better see that we are in a climate crisis which is likely to lead to a collapse. We are living in a closed system and expecting infinite growth, the dominant organisation are corporates which do not take in to account externalities resulting in 100 corporations causing 71% of industrial emissions[1]. A system where rich nations are responsible for 92% of global emissions[2], and the richest 1% of the world population are responsible for double the pollution produced by the poorest 50%.

Its emergent of our system that we are bound in our commonality of greed (yes we are all greedy!). We need to unite in a stronger commonality that we stand inside a closed system hurtling through the vacuum of space. Given our short timeline, we cannot nudge this issue into submission. We need to come together and through transparent political action cut CO2 emissions not on the basis of net zero but by burning zero. It's a long road and there are lots of further ideas but if you want to get involved contact us.


References

  1. Carbon Majors Report - published 2020, accessed 25th January 2022 via: https://climateaccountability.org/carbonmajors.html
  2. Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary, published in The Lancet Planetary Health on September 2020. Accessed on 4th February 2022 via https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519620301960 .

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