Necessary steps to survival

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We accept first that we are in a desperate situation which  means food failure, temperature rising, war,  governance, fires. Floods, deaths and of course too much population to self govern. From a systems point of view, increasing population takes us away from democracy. *

The core problem is that economics came to dominate society's self awareness neglecting politics and as a result not managing  the larger issues of the purpose of he state. As a result problems accumulated without actionable feedback. Examples are: the rise of he super rich which  means that  the state belongs to the few who fail to notice what is happening. Other obvious  problems -  traffic, homelessness, withdrawal of support for deep public education.

A well functioning state requires feedback on emerging issues which the rich avoid.  Since they are rich, the arrangement is working for them so why change? *All well functioning states, especially democratic,  requires widespread education and conversation. We collapsed democracy from vital participation to passive media ingesting and voting .We failed at this, hence our problems,, An example of failure is calling Populisms conservative*

The needed actions now are three-

1. Stop fossil fuel use by cutting deliveries 5% in each of the next years till 2030 years starting now. (cutting all new CO2 )

2. Plant everything we can everywhere possible.  - sequestering is essential to get what we have out of the air

3. Invigorate politics whic means conflict and choice. It means mobilized popular action to force 1 and 2,

• Populism means an organized population  untethered from reasoned management 0f the human species. See next post)

• Read Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies