Yes, it's been quite the story! I think it’s making people feel a little
more helpless. This year has been a landmark year for extreme weather and
more noticeable signs of tipping points, which is both good and bad. Bad,
for obvious reasons but good because it’s getting decision makers to
finally take climate change seriously. But bad again, because it may come
to past as waking up to the reality a little bit late.

Human beings are not very well equipped to interpret hyperobjects (Morton)
like climate change as a threat. That has allowed political, business
leaders and a large percentage of the general public to exercise cognitive
biases to collectively ignore the pressing science of the last five decades.

Unfortunately, no "climate) news is good news. New discoveries of climate
science are usually bad news because climate scientists are usually
conservative by nature. the profesisonal pyschiatrists and pyschologists in
this network will see increased caseloads for eco-counseling as most people
are not good at terror management. As climate change's predicted impacts
being to move from predictions into experienced reality, mortality salience
is going to drive more depression, nihilism, addiction, fear, anger and
violence as people try to find a way to cope with the existential threat of
extinction, We are already seeing a new normality of chaos.

I'm doing my bit by working with other networks to develop a cybernetic
system along the line of Doug Englebert's vision of Collective IQ:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dougengelbart.org_content_view_194_&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=1psf2TyMQY5Fj0_dWgoffDZZjy526C4tg6U8eMLhtfI&s=LGbQggm-9W9d-v-6_ckBGbVnjRXhkpe-iojzPF51SRo&e= 

for rapid whole system change and launching a call to action for builders
to help build it at COP26. Working with knowledge architect Gyuri Lajos and
a team rapidly coalescing around him to build a rapid system change
platform for humanity:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__devpost.com_software_indywiki&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=1psf2TyMQY5Fj0_dWgoffDZZjy526C4tg6U8eMLhtfI&s=08Qu4aw0wpGbcz1GNedL4mfkMNo0h5oLZ-V08mFa-zk&e= 

At this time, it behooves all of us to find our leverage  points where we
can each make the biggest difference, as the time window for action shrinks
rapidly with each passing day.

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 15:07, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>   People have probably seen this, but if not, it is good to at least be
> aware of. It is one of the more trouble environmental signals I have seen
> in a while (and there have been no shortage of such signals lately)…
>
>
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__charliestephen6.medium.com_scientists-2Dfear-2Dthat-2Dthe-2Dgulf-2Dstream-2Dmay-2Dsoon-2Dcollapse-2Dd5bc7c9fabaa&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=1psf2TyMQY5Fj0_dWgoffDZZjy526C4tg6U8eMLhtfI&s=pC08KIkPlZJbC-TCyibD48-8fWsWkj9eoY-bloVRu4k&e= 
>
>
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
>
>
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