Regenerative Options for Reversing the Planet's Eco-crises
Chapter 7 from We Can Reverse the Planet's Eco-crises
Options, any options, by allowing you more upside than downside,
are vectors of anti-fragility. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What are regenerative options?
A regenerative option is either:
1) a Things-We-Extract option that takes less things-we-extract from the biosphere, that is, it takes less things like forests, water, wildlife, soils and minerals from the biosphere, or
2) it’s a Things-We-Use option – like an energy option, a water option, a materials option, a food option, or a manufactures option – that puts less pollution into the biosphere …
Less extraction or less pollution makes an option “regenerative” because less extraction and less pollution allow the biosphere to regenerate itself.
That lessened extraction – measured by an increase in the number of species in an area – may be called a “regeneration benefit” of a Things-We-Extract option.
That lessened pollution – measured by an option avoiding more pollution than it incurs – may be called a “regeneration benefit” of a Things-We-Use option …
Regenerative options are super important “vectors of anti-fragility” because decision-makers everywhere adopting regenerative options is how we scale back the extraction flows and pollution flows of the Human Enterprise ……
… and, at the same time, keep 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 eco-crises as a whole …
… and allows the planet to heal itself …
In the next chapter from We Can Reverse the Planet’s Eco-crises, you will learn how to evaluate the performance benefits and economic benefits of regenerative options that decision-makers want to adopt.
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