Clarity regarding an effective response to a crisis is crucial, such as an economic depression. How do we reverse bad outcomes? Changing five societal systems provides a roadmap to get us mostly there.

ECONOMIC SYSTEM

End government subsidies to all extractive industries.

ENERGY CONSUMPTION SYSTEM

Reduce overall energy demand. Stop making stuff that ends up in landfills.

ENERGY PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Shift to 100% renewable energy. Mandate new technologies like AI to abide.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Shift to 100% ecological farming globally. End industrial agriculture.

PLANET’S LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM

Support the web-of-life by protecting and rewilding habitat. NNH*.

While these five societal systems don’t include all that needs to be done, this is a good start. Any effort focused on any of these systems deserves your support with money, time, and energy. Help those good people.

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* Nature Needs Half (NNH): Protection & rewilding half or more of the natural habitat of every continent, major island, and the oceans to halt the extinction crisis. The time has come to attend to nature’s needs or humanity and much more will perish.