Extremely Simple Regenerative Decision-making Shifts People Everywhere to Extreme Upsides

Part 2 of the “Extremely Simple” Series

Very few pathways create 10x.  With genuine reflection, a 10x target spotlights the few pathways – the high-leverage strategies and  relationships – with extreme upside. – Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy

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 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.

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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 simple 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:

1. 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 …

   

2. … using that mapping to design a process for solving the problem – in the form of an extremely simple decision-making process (called “regenerative decision-making”) – usable by decision-makers everywhere – for adopting “regenerative options” that scale back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise …

   

3. … and using that regenerative decision-making process within an extremely simple Observe – Orient – Decide - Act (OODA) loop (called a “regenerative OODA loop”) – usable by people everywhere -- for adopting regenerative options at the exponential rate needed for reversing the planet’s ecological crises …

Extremely simple regenerative decision-making shifts people everywhere …

… from an extreme downside of exponentially growing incurred pollution …

… to an extreme upside of exponentially growing avoided pollution …

… from an extreme downside of exponentially growing species extinctions …

… to an extreme upside of exponentially growing number of species per area …

… and from an extreme downside of exponentially growing incurred costs due to exponentially growing damage to the biosphere’s regenerative capacity^[1] …

… to an extreme upside of exponentially growing avoided costs delivered by regenerative options that decision-makers want to adopt ...

A seemingly-impossible-but-practical goal of reversing all the planet’s eco-crises spotlights the few processes (regenerative decision-making) with extreme upsides (exponentially growing avoided pollution & numbers of species per area) for achieving that goal.

Steve Jobs might have put it this way:

Simple can be harder than complex:  You have to work hard to get your thinking clean [to make a simple map of the decision-making system that’s creating the planet’s eco-crises, and use that map to design a simple decision-making process for reversing the planet’s eco-crises].  But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains [and reverse the planet’s eco-crises as a whole].

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[1]  See Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L., Nature 658, 551-570 (2024) (estimating global annual damages (that is, incurred costs) of $38 trillion in 2049 due to the planet’s climate crisis)

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In the next article of this “Extremely Simple” series, you will learn the scale of the extreme upsides waiting to be won through extremely simple regenerative decision-making.

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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.