Oh Gosh. Love your work Mark, but the glaring blindspot here is business. The underlying premise of business is what informs investment banking and frankly, creates the rivers of money that has corrupted nearly every government in the world. That comes from an enterprise paradigm that assumes the economy can keep on growing, that capital can concentrate in the hands of the few. That is what we have been doing for decades, and this is the result. See Pikkety's work in his book CAPITAL. The business as usual scenarios employed by the World Bank and IEA assume an economy that will grow 2.4X more by 2050, 7X more by 2100. Inconceivable. You can run an entire world on nuclear or renewable energy tomorrow, and we are still going right off the cliff. To dissociate global warming and the collapse of the biosphere is the "othering" thinking that suffuses the business community. It cannot "fix" "it" until it realizes it is IT.
Oh Gosh. Love your work Mark, but the glaring blindspot here is business. The underlying premise of business is what informs investment banking and frankly, creates the rivers of money that has corrupted nearly every government in the world. That comes from an enterprise paradigm that assumes the economy can keep on growing, that capital can concentrate in the hands of the few. That is what we have been doing for decades, and this is the result. See Pikkety's work in his book CAPITAL. The business as usual scenarios employed by the World Bank and IEA assume an economy that will grow 2.4X more by 2050, 7X more by 2100. Inconceivable. You can run an entire world on nuclear or renewable energy tomorrow, and we are still going right off the cliff. To dissociate global warming and the collapse of the biosphere is the "othering" thinking that suffuses the business community. It cannot "fix" "it" until it realizes it is IT.