Design Requirements for Reversing the Planet's Eco-crises
Chapter 6 from We Can Reverse the Planet's Eco-crises
Design everything on the assumption that people are not heartless or stupid but marvelously capable, given the chance. – John Chris Jones
When one understands that the exponentially growing extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise are creating the planet’s ecological crises …
… your map of the Human Enterprise tells you three design requirements of a decision-making process for scaling back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise and reversing the planet’s eco-crises …
First, your map of the Human Enterprise tells you that reversing the planet’s eco-crises requires a process through which decision-makers adopt Things-We-Extract options and Things-We-Use options that scale back the extraction flows and pollution flows (in orange) of the Human Enterprise …
Second, your map of the Human Enterprise tells us that reversing the planet’s eco-crises requires a process through which decision-makers everywhere want to adopt Things-We-Extract options and Things-We-Use options (in turquoise) that scale back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise …
Third, your map of the Human Enterprise tells you that reversing the planet’s eco-crises requires a process through which decision-makers everywhere want to adopt Things-We-Extract options and Things-We-Use options (in turquoise) that scale back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise (in orange) at the exponential rate needed for reversing the planet’s ecological crises …
Going forward, the expression “regenerative option” may be used to describe a Things-We-Extract option or a Things-We-Use option that scales back the extraction flows and/or the pollution flows of the Human Enterprise.
A Things-We-Extract option or a Things-We-Use option that scales back the extraction flows and/or pollution flows may be called a “regenerative option” because scaling back the extraction flows & pollution flows allows the planet’s biosphere to regenerate itself.
Using the expression “regenerative option,” meeting the three design requirements of a decision-making process for reversing the planet’s eco-crises requires answers to the following three questions:
First, what are regenerative options?
Second, what are regenerative options that decision-makers everywhere want to adopt?
Third, what might a decision-making process look like for adopting regenerative options at the exponential rate needed for reversing the planet’s eco-crises?
In the next four chapters from We Can Reverse the Planet’s Eco-crises, you will learn how to answer each of these three questions to design a simple decision-making process for reversing the planet’s eco-crises.
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