What's a process for adopting the options?
Reversing the eco-crisis in one generation – part 6
Does the action create more life or reduce it? – Paul Hawken
Environmentalist Paul Hawken spoke an important truth when he said:
The way to reverse global warming is to address human needs, the needs they have now.
Reversing global warming requires addressing human physical needs because human decision-making for meeting human physical needs is creating the global warming crisis.
Just as reversing global warming requires addressing human physical needs, reversing the Ecological Crisis requires addressing human physical needs because human decision-making for meeting human physical needs is creating the Ecological Crisis as a whole.
Project Drawdown established that we already possess 93 categories of regenerative options for meeting human physical needs[1] that – when widely adopted – were estimated to deliver more than $97 trillion of avoided cost savings (economic benefits) and more than 1 trillion tons of avoided or sequestered greenhouse gas pollution flows (ecological-crisis-reversing benefits) …
Drawdown showed that we already possess wealth-creating options for reversing the Ecological Crisis, but possessing those options does not mean that the options are going to adopt themselves.
Reversing the Ecological Crisis as a whole requires people everywhere wanting, deciding & acting to adopt regenerative options:
that meet their human physical needs
that avoid more costs than they incur, and
that “create more life” because the option increases the # of species in an area if it’s a things-we-extract option, or the option avoids more pollution than it incurs if it’s a things-we-use option …
People everywhere wanting to adopt regenerative options creates demand for a new & extremely simple kind of information services – called “regenerative information services” – in the form of:
accurate evaluations, comparisons and measurements
of performance benefits, economic benefits and regeneration benefits
of things-we-extract options and things-we-use options for meeting human physical needs …
People everywhere wanting to adopt regenerative options creates demand for entrepreneurs who design and build an extremely simple (but very large) database and computer-implemented application (an “app”) for supplying regenerative information services to people everywhere[2] …
Reversing the Ecological Crisis requires a simple decision-making process -- called “regenerative decision-making” – through which:
People everywhere identify options for meeting their human physical needs.
People everywhere use regenerative information services for evaluating the performance benefits, economic benefits and regeneration benefits of those options …
People everywhere use regenerative information services for comparing those benefits, and …
People everywhere persuade themselves what options they want to adopt and decide to adopt regenerative options …
A simple regenerative decision-making process creates a simple Observe – Orient – Decide – Act (OODA) feedback loop – called a “regenerative OODA loop” -- through which:
People everywhere observe and measure the benefits actually delivered by the adopted regenerative options.
People everywhere orient to deciding exponentially faster to adopt exponentially more regenerative options for delivering exponentially more benefits.
People everywhere decide exponentially faster to adopt exponentially more regenerative options.
People everywhere act exponentially faster to adopt exponentially more regenerative options and deliver exponentially more benefits.
People everywhere observe and measure the benefits delivered by the newly-adopted regenerative options, and cycle again through the simple regenerative OODA loop.
Through a simple regenerative decision-making process within a simple regenerative OODA loop, people everywhere decide exponentially faster to adopt regenerative options at the exponential rate required for reversing the Ecological Crisis in one generation …
People everywhere wanting, deciding & acting to adopt regenerative options (in turquoise) – that deliver regeneration benefits in the form of avoided things-we-extract flows and avoided pollution flows -- scales back (in yellow) the things-we-extract flows and pollution flows (in orange) …
… and, at the same time, keeps intact the things-we-extract flows (in orange) and things-we-use flows (in chartreuse) for meeting every human being’s physical needs …
… which allows the biosphere (in deep green) to regenerate itself (in yellow) as a whole …
… and allows the creativity, intelligence and regenerative capacity of the biosphere as a whole to reverse (in yellow) the Ecological Crisis as a whole …
… and allows the biosphere to meet the physical needs of all its living beings, including its human beings, as a whole …
Reversing the Ecological Crisis in one generation requires a simple decision-making process – called “regenerative decision-making” – through which people everywhere want, decide & act to adopt regenerative options that allow the biosphere to regenerate itself and reverse the Ecological Crisis as a whole.
What do you think? Does this make sense to you?
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P.S. I cross-posted this article on Medium for greater reach.
[1] Project Drawdown referred to these 93 categories of regenerative options as “climate solutions.”
[2] The demand might look like a $2 trillion business opportunity for entrepreneurs who found an enterprise for supplying regenerative information services to people everywhere.
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