Myth #21: Nate Hagens rebuts claims that “Renewable energy can power THIS civilization”
“The popular myth is that we can somehow swap out the dirty energy with clean energy technology while also continuing to consume at today’s income and GDP levels.” — No … Continue reading
“This has been a sledgehammer of a presentation. I’m exhausted.” — Nate’s closing thoughts
“One category, I think, is glaringly missing – How the heck do we live our lives during this Crazy Time? Lastly, an idea I think is essential, is love.” — … Continue reading
Hagens’ fourteenth Intervention and Wild Idea: “4-Minute Women” to grow the voices and WISDOM of women
Start with 4-minute speeches by women scientists on the core topics in this video, but branch out to grow the voices, ideas and WISDOM of women. — No 2751 Posted … Continue reading
Hagens’ thirteenth Intervention and Wild Idea: “Local social networks” to facilitate COMMUNITY cohesion
Creating local social networks will enable communities in the future will have a higher chance of self-organizing when things get tougher No 2750 Posted by fw, June 27, 2021— “One … Continue reading
Hagens’ twelfth Intervention and Wild Idea: “Create a Tribe” for TOMORROW, with its own identifying emoji
A Tribe for TOMORROW, with an emoji, will help people, deeply concerned about our collective future, to find one another. — No 2749 Posted by fw, June 26, 2021— … Continue reading
Hagens’ eleventh Intervention and Wild Idea: “Life Brigade” to PROTECT endangered species
Choose a species of plant or animal, or more than one, and make it part of one’s life’s meaning to PROTECT it.— No 2748 Posted by fw, June 25, 2021— … Continue reading
Hagens’ tenth Intervention and Wild Idea: “Life Ethic” to recover a sense of the SACRED in our lives
It should not be that difficult to decide what matters in our culture – all we need is a consistent ethic of life. — No 2747 Posted by fw, June … Continue reading
Hagens’ ninth Intervention and Wild Idea: “Civilian Land Corps” at the intersection of EUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, ECOLOGY
What if we allowed for a voluntary year off for 17 to 25 year-olds to work on ecological and community restoration projects? — No 2746 Posted by fw, June 23, … Continue reading
Hagens’ eighth Intervention and Wild Idea: “A Cultural Triage” Meet the future halfway — COMPROMISE
The future is going to require a lot of really tough choices – What to save and maintain and what to discard and dump. Be creative. Get started. — No … Continue reading
Hagens’ seventh Intervention and Wild Idea: “How Are We?” A project to measure our WELL-BEING
“How Are We?” will collect real data to measure how Americans are doing in terms of Life-Style metrics like health, jobs, meaning, safety, community, etc. No 2744 Posted by fw, … Continue reading
Hagens’ sixth Intervention and Wild Idea: UnTax all labor-related taxes; Tax all non-renewable resources
Setting labor-related taxes to zero, while taxing non-renewable resources, will incentivize commodity and service price increases, aligning them with their extraction costs. — No 2743 Posted by fw, June 20, … Continue reading
Hagens’ fifth Intervention and Wild Idea: a Council of Contrarians
A Council of Contrarians, made up of diverse, qualified persons, would have negative authority to CENSURE bad ideas. — No 2742 Posted by fw, June 19, 2021— “As our plight … Continue reading
Hagens’ fourth Intervention and Wild Idea: a Council of Elders
Tsunamis are coming. The foresight offered by a Council of Elders would position it to advance policies and solutions for a world facing future calamities. — No 2741 Posted by … Continue reading
Hagens’ third Intervention and Wild Idea: Sensemaking diplomats
“We need collective sensemaking as a prerequisite toward collective coordination and action.” –— No 2740 Posted by fw, June 17, 2021 — “There is a distinction between information and how … Continue reading
Hagens’ second Intervention and Wild Idea: Pro-future Exponential Information Technology
Information has been weaponized: Changing how we access and share information can progressively enhance the quality of life for all, and change global governance. — No 2739 Posted by fw, … Continue reading
Hagens’ first Intervention and Wild Idea: “Energy Appreciation Day”
We’re energy blind, says Hagens; It’s past time to pull back the energy blindfolds of our cultural situation. — No 2738 Posted by fw, June 13, 2021 — In the … Continue reading
The highest risks humanity will face in the coming decades will be how we manage the carbon pulse
But in the next decade we’ll face multiple other risks much higher on politicians’ and citizens’ agendas than climate change No 2737 Posted by fw, June 11, 2021 “On Earth … Continue reading
“WE ARE DOOMED” is Nate Hagens’ #1 Myth on his list of 33 myths about where we’re headed
Fixed, biased personal viewpoints like this, says Hagens, are subverting interpersonal communications about the future. — No 2736 Posted by fw, June 7, 2021 Paraphrasing Dr. Hagens, here is my … Continue reading
We live in a world of islands of expertise separated by oceans of misinformation and confusion
“Collective coordination of our upcoming challenges will not be possible without first having collective sense-making”: Nate Hagens — No 2734 Posted by fw, June 5, 2021 — “I think we’ve … Continue reading
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