Folks really don't get the scale of change that is now arriving.
So many powerful interests have a stake in minimizing the urgency/downplaying the scale of discontinuity.
So many people find it easier to denounce the idea of discontinuity than face failed cultural assumptions.
So many powerful interests have a stake in minimizing the urgency/downplaying the scale of discontinuity.
So many people find it easier to denounce the idea of discontinuity than face failed cultural assumptions.
Here in the U.S., almost no part of our debate is fully engaged with the realities of inexorable, discontinuous change—or the disruptiveness of the actions that have now become inevitable.
But we've got lots of predatory delay, downplaying, goalwashing & triangulation.
But we've got lots of predatory delay, downplaying, goalwashing & triangulation.
A major symptom:
How much concern there is for protecting people from the costs of action and how little there is for protecting them from the staggeringly larger harms of inaction.
How much concern there is for protecting people from the costs of action and how little there is for protecting them from the staggeringly larger harms of inaction.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1089625083331526656
We're seeing the costs of our previous inaction all around us; the dangers of our present inaction escape confident prediction because of complex mutual accelerations, threshold effects, magnification though disrupted human systems and rippling conflicts.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1419040504423993352
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