mj on Nostr: That reductive thinking doesn't work well in complex adaptive systems. One change ...

That reductive thinking doesn't work well in complex adaptive systems. One change rarely confirms or disproves anything. There's also no god-mode where someone can enter instantaneous global changes via keyboard.

I'm not saying that individuals should not change, and especially prepare for the very different lifestyle that awaits them. They're largely the same actions anyway.

I'm saying that the myriad ways the millions of components of the system will continue to function counter to these stated climate goals, and even come up with new, worse ways (like LLaiM in every home).

So there is no 'reversion back to a safe place' that's possible without adopting an insane, maximally unethical practice of population reduction. The world had only 1.8 billion pop in 1911.

Evolution does not require an intelligent designer. This is the basis for what I said about the systems not changing due to individual agency. That doesn't mean we don't get to choose our mates, and largely influence our own happiness or local well-being.

If we don't or can't change the largest hubs (govs & corps) behavior, our own actions won't have much network-wide effect because they won't propagate far w/o the hubs.