Thread by @SteB777

What my thread is about here is the reality gap between how the physical and natural world described by science actually operates, and the convenient fiction narrative of the natural environment as imagined by classical economics sees the world. #MindTheGap

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1388206614411370497

@GretaThunberg is accurately and pertinently highlighting the reality gap between the climate action pledged by politicians, and the action the science tells us we need to take to avert dangerous climate change and ecological catastrophe. #MindTheGap

However, the problem goes much, much deeper than this. Politicians, economists, business leaders and a large proportion of the public have a totally false view of the world in which we live. The reality gap is much bigger than just the pledged action. #MindTheGap

There is a tendency for those with a view of the world based on the scientific evidence, an ecological view, to think that everyone else sees things the same, just maybe not in the same level of detail. In fact others have a totally different, incommensurate view. #MindTheGap

Economists, most politicians, most business people, do not see humanity, society, our economy, as totally reliant on the natural systems of the world, as it actually is. The reality gap is immense. #MindTheGap

I've lost count of how many dystopian future movies I see, in which biodiversity, natural habitat, most fauna and flora has completely died out, yet some sort of modern semblance of modern human society persists albeit in a diminished way. This is totally unrealistic.

All modern lifestyles and almost certainly humanity itself would disappear long before all natural habitat and biodiversity did. However, this false belief occurs, because most do not understand natural systems, totally sustain humanity, our societies and our economies.

Absolutely no attempt is made to find out what people's beliefs are about natural systems totally sustaining us. No one ever challenges politicians to explain their understanding of this reality. Not doing this could be the death of us.

Whilst flying should be discouraged, no one would willingly get on a plane without being assure the pilot knew how to fly the the plane. Yet we allow political leaders to pilot our societies, without ever establishing if they've got any idea what they're doing and how it works.

We need to urgently establish how other people, especially decision makes, and powerful influential people see and understand the world we live in. To discover why they nonchalantly accept the reality gap between the action necessary, and the action pledged. #MindTheGap

No one, or very few people are looking at the obvious explanation, and that is that most people have a view of the world, totally inconsistent and mutually incompatible with the big picture of the Earth's systems derived from the scientific evidence.