Extremely Simplifying the Problem Illuminates an Extremely Simple Process for Reversing the Planet’s Eco-crises
Part 1 of the “Extremely Simple” Series
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Steve Jobs.
The planet’s life-sustaining biosphere is in crisis. The Stockholm Resilience Centre has mapped the biosphere’s crisis as the sum of nine planet-scale ecological crises created by humanity’s “overshoot” of “planetary boundaries” …
Reversing the planet’s ecological crises as a whole presents as a seemingly impossible goal and a seemingly unsolvable problem.
The evidence of impossibility and unsolvability appears overwhelming.
For example, despite the 2015 Paris Agreement in which 195 nations pledged to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, increases in global carbon emissions are accelerating, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are accelerating, and increases in global mean temperature are growing past 1.5 degrees Celsius and accelerating.
If limiting global warming appears to be an impossible goal or an insoluble problem, what does that say about actually reversing the climate crisis or any of the other planet-scale ecological crises?
What if reversing the planet’s ecological crises as a whole (including the climate crisis) is a solvable problem?
What if reversing the planet’s ecological crises as a whole (including the climate crisis) is a practical and achievable goal?
In 10x Is Easier Than 2x, strategic coaches Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy reveal the practicality of seemingly impossible goals:
Seemingly impossible or massive goals are highly practical because they immediately separate what works from what won’t, illuminating the few paths that have the greatest efficacy. …
Seemingly impossible goals are more practical than possible goals because impossible goals force you outside your current level of knowledge and assumptions. …
Reversing the planet’s ecological crises as a whole is a seemingly-impossible-but-practical goal because:
it forces one outside one’s current level of knowledge and assumptions about the problem, and
it forces one into an extreme simplification of the problem that illuminates the few paths (or processes) for solving the problem.
Steve Jobs said:
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
My book, We Can Reverse the Planet’s Eco-crises, solves the problem of reversing the planet’s eco-crises as a whole (including the climate crisis) through:
extremely simplifying the problem of the planet’s eco-crises – in the form of an extremely simple mapping of the decision-making system for meeting human physical needs (called “the Human Enterprise”) that’s creating the planet’s eco-crises as a whole …
that illuminates a process for solving the problem – in the form of an extremely simple decision-making process (called “regenerative decision-making”) for meeting human physical needs …
… contained in an extremely simple Observe – Orient – Decide - Act (OODA) loop (called a “regenerative OODA loop”) for exponentially faster decision-making …
Through regenerative decision-making, decision-makers everywhere exponentially adopt “regenerative options” for scaling back (or “de-growing”) the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise …
… and, at the same time, keeping intact the Human Enterprise for meeting every human being’s physical needs …
Scaling back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise allows the planet’s biosphere to regenerate itself …
The planet’s regenerated biosphere reverses the planet’s ecological crises as a whole …
… and allows the planet to heal itself …
Reversing the planet’s eco-crises as a whole is a seemingly-impossible-but-practical goal because it forces one outside one’s current level of knowledge and assumptions about the problem, and forces one into an extreme simplification of the problem that illuminates the few paths (or processes) for solving the problem.
When you read my simple e-book, We Can Reverse the Planet’s Eco-crises, you’ll learn:
an extremely simple mapping of the decision-making system for meeting human physical needs (called “the Human Enterprise”) that’s creating the planet’s eco-crises as a whole, and
an extremely simple decision-making process (called “regenerative decision-making”) for winning trillions in avoided cost savings and reversing the planet’s eco-crises as a whole.
When you read the articles in my Regenerative Decision-making newsletter:
… you’re giving yourself essential tools and skills for your successful career in reversing the planet’s ecological crises.
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P.S. I cross-posted this article on Medium to give it greater reach.