5/ Fascinating thing about climate change is not the debate around known unknowns, but threshold at which unknown unknowns will take over
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6/ We can anticipate/compute at most to 2nd order effects (say ocean acidification killing bottom of food chain for example).
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7/ The fun begins if problem "gets away" from us and we (full-human "we") are forced into purely reactive mode.
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8/ That means new dynamics will be gaining energy faster than we are managing energies in the old dynamics.
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9/ And nobody will have any idea how long the transient to a new (unknown-unknown) equilibrium will last.
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10/ Where I mean equilibrium in broadest homeostasis/autopoiesis strange attractor sense, not naive game theory/linear systems sense.
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11/ Admission: I personally don't care much at all about survival of species/people getting hurt so long as I and friends/family survive.
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12/ What truly interests me about CC is just that it appears to be the first massive experiment in trying to control a true complex system
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@atduskgreg the collective action bit is just another piece to think about and shape (see my ribbonfarm piece yesterday). No special status.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@atduskgreg ie, if problem breaks down into climate physics, energy innovation, etc. then "shaping people's actions" is just an item on list
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