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© Michael Thorne Kelly ([email protected])

Climate Change is a Pass/Fail Test

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Climate change is a pass/fail test for the human species. It is also an opportunity.The silver lining is that to turn this emerging catastrophe into an opportunity will require that we make a better world for everyone.

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© Michael Thorne Kelly ([email protected])

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Now is an Emergent Phenomenon

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We Decide What We Want

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We Create a Compelling Plan

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We Use the Plan to Mobilize Resources

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We Allocate Those Resources

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We Create a System That Dances with Context

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Macro-Context

What we have to live with

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Micro-Context

What we can influence

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Macro-Context

The Planet is Warming at an Alarming Rate

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It is Happening Much Faster

Than Predicted

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Positive Feedback

Loops Cause Abrupt

AtmosphericHeating

Methane boiling out of a Siberian Lake

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“Squealing” Weather

Signals an Imminent

Phase Shift

Weather Records Broken in 2011

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Human Activity is a Catalyst for Several Positive

Feedback Loops

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Every Day There are More

of Us

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Rising Resources

Costs

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RisingFoodCost

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Socially Destabilizing

EconomicInequality

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PracticallyUnlimitedUntapped

“Green” Energy

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We Know How to Find Answers

Explosion of Scientific

Knowledge

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We Know What Works

Social Policy Can Promote

Elitism or Equality

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Following Through

We Can Know When It Isn’t Working

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Science of Wisdom

We Know How to Make Wise

Decisions

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Cooperation VS Competition

We Know How to Promote

Social Cooperation

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Wisdom Trumps Power

We Know How to Make

Governance That Works for

Everyone

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Micro- Context Starts With Making A Choice

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Grow Or Die

We Have to Experiment

Because There is so Much

We Don’t Know

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Continuously Strive for Less Wrong

We Can’t Wait for Certainty

Before We Act

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Get Our Priorities Straight

Reduce Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere

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We Know Where GHGs Come From

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Be Responsible

Replace Consumerism

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Have Fun Doing It

There’s More to Life Than

Consumption, Discover What

VitalizesYou

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Paint Your Roof White, It Might Save Civilization

Even Little Things Can Buy

Us Critical Time to Set

Things Right

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A Million Viruses in a Drop of Sea Water

Think Geo-restoration,

Geo-engineering is Like Trying to

Move a Balloon with a Sharp

Stick

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Empower Each Other

Thrive Together

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So What Do We Want

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Let’s Answer that Question Wisely