{"id":2831,"date":"2014-02-14T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2014-03-15T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:24:39","slug":"how-full-is-a-glass-half-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/how-full-is-a-glass-half-hidden\/","title":{"rendered":"How full is a “Glass Half Hidden”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The worst part of “A Glass Half Hidden<\/strong>” is the clear chance of discovering “An Iceberg of Risks<\/strong>” missing from the view.<\/h4>\n

Scope 1, 2, & 3 only count the\u00a0impacts of<\/span>\u00a0the primary technology chains that businesses rely on to operate, and ignore the usually much larger impacts of the many chains of business services consumed too. \u00a0 That’s the iceberg of hidden responsibilities of business cause, being ignored due to using an unscientific method of measurement, i.e. counting only the impacts you see, and not accounting for the one unseen (what Scope 4 finally does). \u00a0 \u00a0So there’s also a hidden iceberg of bigger than expected changes in plan to take care of too… that we’ve been unaware of needing for having a sustainable economy. \u00a0 \u00a0It explains why our efforts so far still result in the economy degrading of the\u00a0earth ever faster as we delay making meaningful change. \u00a0 The job doesn’t change, just how directly we’re able to address it.<\/p>\n

What’s really hidden is that it’s our money that is directly paying for all the economy’s impacts, making us financially responsible. \u00a0Now we also really need to know the total bill. \u00a0 Having a habit of not looking at what our money was used to pay for, we’ve been lulled asleep by the way money launders all the information on what our money pays for to deliver what the economy provides.<\/p>\n

(see also\u00a0What\u2019s Scope 4, and\u2026 Why all the tiers??<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for examples and full analysis)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It is indeed a little ‘strange’ that a very basic\u00a0scientific principle of measurement, that every scientist knows quite well already, would be overlooked in defining the world’s units of measure for saving the planet.<\/p>\n

Scientific ways to measure things, need to measure the whole<\/span> thing. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sustainability metrics very largely don’t so that, lacking a scientific way to\u00a0determine\u00a0the scale of hidden impacts, the method for measuring economic impacts defaulted to the ancient practice of just counting what you have direct information on. \u00a0 \u00a0The reality is that the great majority of business impacts actually don’t c come from what is most visible, but\u00a0from widely distributed uses of the\u00a0economy that businesses have no records of, paid for by employing all sorts of business services. \u00a0 The problem is that whether you know about them or not, the risk\u00a0exposure to serious emerging economic liabilities…\u00a0 is exactly the same.<\/p>\n

Here’s a new graphic to help picture the problem. \u00a0It helps to shift from thinking about counting the energy\u00a0“uses<\/span>”\u00a0a business and its\u00a0<\/span>suppliers\u00a0operate with (i.e. traceable for Scope 1,2 or 3, and so on the visible side<\/span> of the “glass\u00a0half hidden”), to thinking about the energy uses its revenues are “<\/span>paying for<\/span>“, but often don’t have records of (Scope 4, on the hidden side). \u00a0It’s the total of energy uses paid for that make a business both financially responsible and directly exposed to the emerging economic\u00a0<\/span>risks of physically causing economic liabilities and the harms done. \u00a0 It’s a serious major overlooked sustainability business risk. \u00a0 \u00a0If 80% of the CO2 produced by uses of business revenue actually come from its services, and not its technology,<\/p>\n

…it’s all the same to the investor exposed to the risks for the business as a whole. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For risk exposure it’s essential to measure the total impacts on the earth a business is financially responsible for,\u00a0as that’s where the risk comes from. \u00a0 \u00a0Just choosing not to count all the ones your revenue goes to pay for moves the risks to the hidden side of the “glass half-hidden”… but still leaves you just as exposed to the very substantial economic risks of business devaluation many see ahead.<\/p>\n

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\n(see ref’s below)<\/span><\/p>\n

…We make our choices based on the information we have…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n…But consequences include information we haven’t…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Added references: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Link to PDF files\u00a0– \u00a0Glass Half Hidden<\/a>\u00a0 & Iceberg of Hidden Risks
\n<\/em>JLH Statement to the UN OWG Major Groups –\u00a0Something very wrong with our units of measure<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>An application for globally unifying our implementation of the UN’s SDG’s – A World SDG<\/span>
\nB<\/span><\/a>asic\u00a0Research notes & calculation methods\u00a0– \u00a0Estimating your\u00a0<\/span><\/a>DollarShadow<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

jlh \u00a02\/20\/14 ed 2\/28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The worst part of “A Glass Half Hidden” is the clear chance of discovering “An Iceberg of Risks” missing from the view. Scope 1, 2, & 3 only count the\u00a0impacts of\u00a0the primary technology chains that businesses rely on to operate, and ignore the usually much larger impacts of the many chains of business services consumed … Continue reading How full is a “Glass Half Hidden”?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-scitheory","category-whattodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}