Regenerative Options That Decision-makers Everywhere Want to Adopt
Chapter 8 from We Can Reverse the Planet's Eco-crises
An option allows its user to get more upside than downside as [the user] can select among the results what fits [the user] and forget about the rest.
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What are regenerative options that decision-makers everywhere want to adopt?
Just because a regenerative option delivers regeneration benefits (in the form of increased # of species per area or avoided pollution flows) does not mean decision-makers will want to adopt it.
If a regenerative option does not meet a human physical need – for food, for water, for heat, for shelter, or for transport – decision-makers are not going to want to adopt it.
Similarly, if a regenerative option that meets a human physical need costs more money than a non-regenerative option that meets that same need, decision-makers are not going to want to adopt the regenerative option.
If decision-makers want to adopt a regenerative option, they need to persuade themselves of two things:
First, they need to persuade themselves that the regenerative option meets a human physical need. In other words, the regenerative option has to work. It has to perform. It has to deliver nutritious food, or drinkable water, or a habitable building, or safe transportation, or usable electric power.
If a regenerative option meets a human physical need, if it works, if it performs, it is said to deliver “performance benefits.” If a regenerative option does not deliver performance benefits, decision-makers are not going to want to adopt it.
Second, if decision-makers want to adopt a regenerative option, they need to persuade themselves that the regenerative option avoids more costs than it incurs. In other words, the regenerative option has to deliver avoided cost savings compared to the non-regenerative option currently in use.
If a regenerative option avoids more costs than it incurs, it is said to deliver “economic benefits.” If a regenerative option does not deliver economic benefits, decision-makers are not going to want to adopt it.
To recap from my previous article and this article:
Regenerative options are super important because decision-makers everywhere wanting to adopt regenerative options is how we can reverse the planet’s ecological crises as a whole ...
In the next chapter from We Can Reverse the Planet’s Eco-crises, you will learn why present-day decision-making for meeting human physical needs is not a process for adopting regenerative options at the exponential rate needed for reversing the planet’s eco-crises.
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