{"id":1486,"date":"2011-05-29T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2011-05-29T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:00:18","slug":"whats-one-thing-everyone-could-do-to-slow-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/whats-one-thing-everyone-could-do-to-slow-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s one thing everyone could do, to slow climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAn\u00a0exchange with John Baez<\/a> on his Azimuth blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Phil Henshaw says: May 28, 2011 at 1:54 am<\/p>\n

I think the actual problem, and why it\u2019s so intractable, is that our \u201cresource management system\u201d is designed to serve our financial system,\u2026 not the reverse.<\/p>\n

Our financial system is designed to create stable positive financial returns, so people can keep adding their winnings to their bets, and have an ever multiplying \u201cfree lunch\u201d. The critical energy management decision necessary for doing as best one can at that (allowing punctuating the endless boom with enough busts all the time\u2026) is to accelerate the economy\u2019s use of inexpensive energy as fast as economically feasible, forever.<\/p>\n

What results when people model their implementation of physical law following rules they happen to like for financial law, is it creates a simply enormous explosion of wealth that produces a completely unmanageable society and economic system (instead of a comfortable home on earth).<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s a big part of what is so self-defeating in the human intention to \u201ctame nature\u201d to behave like we think it should. We haven\u2019t seen the value of watched nature to see how it works first.<\/p>\n