Sitemap - 2023 - Douglass’s Newsletter
Political theory and hot issues
Toward a new society, new planet
Discussion following up on posts
Toward actions to contain climate change and related issues taken as a system
Moving towrd more powerful views
Earth celebration funeral at climate induced end?
sorokin and leverage to change
As we pull back we need a vision of where to.
We must in the next months....
Blind spot in climate coping. No who what why when where.
Scale of change. Must solution scale match problem scale?
More details. Undeveloped country fossil fuel use.
A few details now that COP 28 is in motion
Picking up on Toynbee here and then next Sorokin
Short term win mid term dieoff
Review of all posts from 3067-3096
Different suggestive overviews
Climate and patchwork oppoortunities
Climate embraced by mechanical thinking.
COP 28 : growth vs simplification
Psychology, poetry and climate
Under climate, how to manage the world - or local only?
Human organization and climate change.
cop 28 preliminary working group
Current society - Heather Cox Richardson
Taking on the social, culctural and civilizattional fabric of society
salary vs wages. Why not both as benefits?
Society and climate (and the rest of the system)
Key thhought to accept as given at COP 28
From the physical to the social in Gardenworld
Simon Michaux’s community plan
But the problem is growth, energy and co2 - again
Th key implication of Rifkin’s Resistance.
Responsibility of economics and economists
A near gardenworld in Montenegro
Short version of Gardenworld Politics.
Appropriate politics depends on confronted issue.
Redundancy and supply-chain fragility: A Problem for economics.
Food as predicted as summer harvest reports posted
The pope - great language but also no specific actions cutting fossi l fuel use .
WW 20TH CENTURY - IMPLICATIONS NOT DEVELOPED.
Simple non-monetary economies much closer in time than we think.
Artificial intelligence: is there any other kind?
Energy is lazy metaphor for human communication.
Climate action? State or civilization.
Toward a civilizational perspective
Material vs spiritual: we are facing the wrong challenges.
Problem with many participants, and too many new conversations. Bad math.
Harmony versus change Dash our predicament
Learn to criticize apparently logical arguments. Tim Cook, and 1 million solar panels.
who is who in climate thinking.
Gardenworld is food, shelter and, additionally, aesthetics, all to have a goal beyond survival
Grow everything everywhere. Food, shade. Playing with the thought.
Some pragmatics for getting to Gardenworld
A dying civilization becomes a failed state.
Common system template for world view
Cause of opinions held not the same as opinions held
Sand-castles slow to build up fast to come down.
local and global management both necessary
climate is a distraction from the perils of capitalism rooted in human opportunism
Two kinds of imagination needed.
Cutting co2. Who will do what and when will they do it?
How to speak about climate challenge
New writing makes communication about climate harder
What story to tell about climate ?
What to do with the remaining time?
The transition from industrial to digital society
The serious logical structure of the climate moment.
Toward poem, where is our Dante?
Perspective, real historical transformations,
Climate response should be like Chess
The evolutionarily role of cuteness is overlooked
Continuing on without change. Reasonable?
Inevitable end of this civilizationp
Why not deal with climate change
Living as a system, thinking with lego blocks
Leaders and martial arts: a fateful marriage
Need for images of where we are trying to go.
Not policies chosen but a hurricane of disruption
Emergency actions not discussed
A new culture is needed, anti fossil fuel.
Larger social movements at scale
News habits that would help us get to Gardenworld
[COPY] Three models of governance for crises.
How to get to global management?
Child and parent oriented society -Gardenworld
OECD outlook just published is blind
Apple’s Vision Pro and human fate
Three models of governance for crises.
Toynbee on Greece, Rome and the West today
Nicholas Tesla falls for the ice cream.
Current regime is geo engineering
A new way of presenting climate facts and thoughts on scenarios
Church and state model based on non-interference. An approach to power.
In 1939 ErichFromm published Edcape from Freedom.
Corporations, democracy and problem solving
Investment and problem solving; Siamese twins
Not enough good people to run a fair society
Investment, but not for society
AI catches all weak correlations. Now what?
New homes and electric appliances
In Montenegro on the Adriatic,
The difference between artificial intelligence…
Gardenworld example in the Jungle
First scenario: Do nothing. Drift with the temperature.
Not just climate collapse, species collapse
Capitalism: origin and destiny
re climate: Who will do what and when will they do it?
The poetry of it: growth equals destruction
We have no philosophy to help us understand
Things have to fall apart before they can be re-organized
Consumers can't think systemically
Split brain, metaphorically thinking
A few thoughts on illusion of control
Fragile are attempts at climate action when most just want to hold on.
frustrations of established order*
Goal of Gardenworld - blend garden and shelter
Bottom-up social development.*
Imagination needed for energy for theworld's poor.
The Logic of the near fuuture is tightening against us
Gas vs EV cars: honest cost shocks
Unconscious of oil source and quantity
All major issues intersect with climate change
All the solutions are the solution.
Olivia Lazard: "Peace and Power in the Mineral Age” | The Great Simplification #58
India, strategy and TIME magazine.
Pogress in econocmics to solve social problems? Ha-Joon Change is skeptical
New Yorker on bad assumptions about climate