re climate: Who will do what and when will they do it?

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Who will do what and when will they do it?

During the buildup to Y2K (a very important and ignored event) I wrote a newsletterY2K Week,  (I can’t find a copy of it).  Each week was numbered by the number of weeks till Jan 1 2000.

The idea fits well the unfolding - or not unfolding - of who will do what and when  with regard to climate change and related issues. Examples:

• What are executive teams of governments doing?

• What conversations are the press having offline?

• What will people who have guns do with them?

• What will urbanites do with failing food supply chains?

• Who might actually try to prevent the burning of significant amounts of fossil fuels? (Things like air flight would be relatively easy to curtail technically but very hard politically).

• What will parents discuss with their children?

• What will the US military (with very good and critical scenarios do?

• What will your neighbors do?

• How many will leave their land as migrants?

• Will local groups do a resource assessment?

• Who will leave their jobs in order to protect their families?

• What will financial institutions to as they see assets going into free fall?

• What will artists do (I think of Goya's the Spanish War of Independence)?

• What will the Salvation Army do?

• The churches?

• What will the garden supply businesses do?

This kind of differentiation helps stir our imaginations about what can be done amd by who -and when.