Barack Obama 'seriously considering' hosting climate summit

[NoOneMan]

68. Well, first we need to come to terms with exactly what is happening

Once we recognize that civilization is basically going to be pulled from our cold, dead hands, despite anything we "do" about (which will likely increase immediate aggregate emissions), then it doesn't sounds like such a bad thing to let it go. Instead of creating "solutions" that intend to let us continually grow the earth-raping economy, organize an economic decline and a deleveraging/decomplexification of civilization. Reorganize the way we think of economic growth (which translates to carbon emissions by a measurable constant), and establish a new way to live. Use the resources we have sparingly to build regional food supply resilience and educate people with the required skill sets. Basically, deploy Transition teams everywhere, start planting trees and securing food/water, and scale back the economy completely. Restore regional dependence and autonomy to the people.

Some areas are already working on this, but the nation states plunder ahead. With luck, those places working toward a sustainable, resilient future will make it through the bottleneck (because our neo-classical economic loving leaders are too stupid to really do this) and rebuild a future for humanity (which may not even include complex, large civilizations)