SimPol ("Simultaneous Policy") is an attempt much like what Doyle describes
below to address global externalities by forging an international grassroots
consensus on policy initiatives to be undertaken simultaneously in multiple
countries. See: http://www.simpol.org/ .
Peter Hollings
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How do we connect to each other. What do we mobilize to?
We can say if... global warming then global power structures to fit the
problem scale. If the whole system must be re-built as if a world war level
of threat was happening, and that is probably not large enough to encompass
global warming, then it would have to include how everyone connects to
everyone in a much more defined and closely regulated way. What else can
one say it means to stop wasting energy, but to address every single
wasteful element in every day life, and immediately require everyone to
change in a matter of years not decades.
There is no known social mechanism of such cross border attachments, but
that is exactly what is being called for.
No matter what happens, failure to meet the demands in advance of global
warming these changes force everyone to face the challenge one way or the
other. So the radical demand is not directed at energy, but at social
change and specific structures that can make human social structure work in
the face of a severe crisis. Nothing can happen before the social structure
question is brought to the front of the solutions agenda.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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