Re:Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked...
by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:23AM
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>Our civilisation is a chaotically stable system
This.
Worse, it's a chaotically stable system run by people who have no idea what a chaotically stable system is, or how little change is needed for the wheels to come off.
I'm not even slightly optimistic, because as a species we have evolved exactly the wrong kind of management and decision-making processes to get through this.
Survival requires being able to think at the species and planetary level.
Too many humans are unable to think beyond their own individual short-term interests, with clan (tribal and class) interests coming a close second.
Until that changes, planet-sized problems like climate change are inherently unsolvable.
This.
Worse, it's a chaotically stable system run by people who have no idea what a chaotically stable system is, or how little change is needed for the wheels to come off.
I'm not even slightly optimistic, because as a species we have evolved exactly the wrong kind of management and decision-making processes to get through this.
Survival requires being able to think at the species and planetary level.
Too many humans are unable to think beyond their own individual short-term interests, with clan (tribal and class) interests coming a close second.
Until that changes, planet-sized problems like climate change are inherently unsolvable.