7/ Ironically, the most recent of many historic level-ups in scale of collectively manageable problems has been the modern stock market
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8/ Modern stock market emerged in 19th century because railroads demanded capital mobilization at larger scale than ever attempted before
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9/ When it was invented, it helped *replace* the prevailing nobility/merchant/plebe societal structure with modern left/right structure
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10/ Whatever response emerges for climate change, we can rest assured it will wipe out right/left divide and create a new basic divide
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11/ Climate change has at least 3 unprecedented "scale" dimensions: time constants, global coordination, integrator effects
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12/ Time constants: no institutions, democratic or authoritarian, have planning ability for the horizons in question
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13/ Global coordination: Prev scale limit was the response to the Nazi threat. This is more intricate, and there is no convenient Hitler
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14/ Integrator effects: climate change is a problem with a much stronger "memory" (or "compound interest rate") than any faced by humanity
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15/ It is fairly obvious that organizations will be completely rewired by how they respond to climate change, to the extent they are exposed
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@jonathanglick No, been thinking about it for a while, thanks mainly due to @sampenrose and the solution aversion idea.
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