Solving climate change

Society's Breakthrough is a "Holution" to the climate crisis

There are eight steps to implementing Society's Breakthrough. It is a 2nd order solution, what we call a "Holution," It's a strategy for addressing the underlying Human Predicament, which causes many impossible-seeming existential issues like climate change. Basically, Society's Breakthrough is a simple set of actions that don't seem like much, but which will facilitate our System to transform itself, and many of society's biggest "Monster Problems". This is really good news.

More good news: This strategy is accessible, something just a few of us can set in motion--8 accessible steps.. ... More good news: Each step is a benefit to society. And there are no identifiable risks! ... More good news: This breakthrough is already proven to work at large scale! ... More good news: We (just us) don't need anyone's permission to begin. Nor do we need to sell it first to a massive number of people. Still, we'd love for lots of people to understand ahead of time what this is, how it works, it's benefits to each of us and to society, and why it must happen" ... And, of course, we'd love for people to support this effort!.

For more information about how this Holution differs from ordinary Solutions, see these articles published by MAHB (The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere of Stanford University) ...

Three 3-min video trailers

#1: How to solve the Climate Crisis ...

#2: Climate scientist discovers Society's Breakthrough

"I believe this is the solution that will save us."
-- Robert Holden, climate scientist

Below is the 2.5 min trailer ... to the 1 hour 18 min video, "Climate Scientist finds the solution". Actually, we call the global Wisdom Council Process a "holution."

Below is a three minute trailer to a 45 min video "How to really solve climate change" .

#3: "Society's Breakthrough" considered in the light of "Post Doom"

In this short trailer Michael Dowd, a best-selling religious naturalist who currently focuses on helping people to understand and adapt to the coming collapse of our civilization (See his extensive website www.PostDoom.com), talks with Jim Rough about the potential impact of "Society's Breakthrough" on the climate crisis. The full video is available at https://youtu.be/nUKmtugRkRM

Society's Breakthrough affects climate change in many ways

1) Better "solutions"

Sparking breakthroughs ... Scientists are saying that it's too late for us to avoid many of the worst aspects of climate change. But We haven't started thinking yet. What's missing is for us (just us) to facilitate a new global conversation in the spirit of choice-creating. This is the quality of thinking by which a person, group or large system of people can face impossible-seeming issues collaboratively with heartfelt creativity, so that shifts and Breakthroughs are natural.
Removing the blocks to existing solutions ... Many solution strategies to climate change are blocked from happening by the limitations of our System. For example, entrenched interests block new technologies, money-in-politics blocks intelligent policies, and the absence of global governance blocks our ability to manage progress. Our current System is set up to be a competition of special interests, where with little emphasis on the public interest. Society's Breakthrough generates a clear sense of the public interest where the power of the people can provide for the "solutions" to become effective.

2) New thinking

Facilitating a new quality of thinking . Our current System enforces us into a subject-object, reductionist approach to problems, which drives us to see nature as a set of resources to be claimed. The climate crisis is a natural result. The global Wisdom Council Process can spark a shift in our collective and individual thinking process where we think more holistically and inclusively—including all people, other species, the planet, and future generations. (i.e. choice-creating more primarily than decision-making)
Generating unity and clarity of purpose ... Society's Breakthrough facilitates "all the people" to face issues like climate change collaboratively, to co-create shared understandings of the issue; (i.e. what is truth); what we want (i.e. vision); what we need to do (i.e. strategy) and to coordinate progress toward shared goals. For instance, in pursuit of profits some media organizations mis-inform their audiences, implying that "the climate crisis is not real" and can be safely ignored in favor of continued use of fossil fuels. They influence audiences to value loyalty to their "tribe" over critical thinking and problem-solving. They generate fear so people become susceptible to authoritarian leaders. Society's Breakthrough is a way to overcome these aspects of our System, and reopen closed minds so that new understandings can arise.
Overcoming the impact of money-in-politics and partisan gridlock ... Special Interests dominate and corrupt collective decision-making. There is little shared sense of the "public interest". Once we all start thinking together beyond the reach of fear-based media, the Public Interest can become a priority and actions by governments, corporations and people can become collectively intelligent.
Elevating collective consciousness ... Many people think that increased consciousness is the answer to climate change and other monster problems. But educating and transforming individuals, even a critical mass of people is not enough to generate collective consciousness. For that to happen there must be one whole-system choice-creating conversation, where we co-create a shared perspective. The "magic sauce" for achieving this is our ability to facilitate choice-creating. And the Wisdom Council Process can be used to facilitate it globally.

3) A new "Dynamical System"

"We the People" ... Using the Wisdom Council Process it's possible to facilitate all of us to come together as "We the People," capable of establishing a global Constitution. But even before that, just the existence of this "We the People" is a structural addition to the current System that amounts to a new form of global governance by itself. So here's a way that a few of us can facilitate capable management of the global commons into being.
Sparking a new system of governance .. Our System is the ultimate cause for the climate crisis. It structures the dynamic of special interests competing, where this competitor mindset naturally undermines the commons in favor of profits. Plus in this structure, there is little provision for achieving the common good. Or even addressing it. Society's Breakthrough promises to transform this. There are three possible "Dynamical Systems" 1) Triangle (i.e. autocracy, being governed by a permanent leader) or 2) Box (i.e. what is called "democracy" but which is really government by a Social Contract or Constitution) or 3/ Circle (i.e. where we all participate in creating a new entity, "We the People," which is the ultimate authority). See the article: The Circle System.
Evoking a new form of global economics ... Human civilization is not designed for the situation we now find ourselves in. Today we are in overshoot, consuming the commons faster than it can replenish itself. With capitalism as the economic system we are doomed. But, through implementing the global Wisdom Council Process we can preserve the freedoms of capitalism while adding the missing ingredient: collective intelligence. Keeping everything the same we can all periodically step back and think together. We can ask ourselves: "How are we doing? What do we want? How do we best go forward?". Implementing these regular moments of "stepping back" generates new motivations in people, corporations, NGO's etc.
Overhauling the sub-systems ... Society's Breakthrough also provides a way to reestablish and renew existing global organizations like the UN., the EU, etc. Here's a way "the people" can re-charter these organizations to address and managing issues like climate change. Here's how we can collectively assess and choose ways of going forward that incorporate new ideas like geo-engineering, fusion research, green energy technologies, etc. The global Wisdom Council Process can establish a unified hierarchy of values from which to redesign society.

"What can I do?" ... to REALLY help solve the climate crisis?

In any conversation about climate change people will likely start discussing solution possibilities, often starting with this phrase: "We need to ..." ... e.g. "We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions". Or "We need to enact a global carbon tax. Or "We need to understand that climate change is just a symptom'" Or "We need to get serious and demand action." ... These statements often imply the existence of some global, conscious "We the People," capable of facing this challenge, working out the best strategies and acting coherently in the public interest. Currently, there is no such "We." So instead, it's natural to substitute other, smaller "We's" that do exist and can act. Consider these possible We's that might act.

We (#0) — First, this is just us talking about this crisis. If you want to really impact climate change what is it "We need to do?" ... Well, we might get involved with one or more of the first three We's. These are the smaller We's that exist already in our System. Or—and hopefully this is what you will choose—we might get involved in helping to facilitate We(#4). This is the We that can dramatically affect climate change.

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We(#1)--us as individuals—We need to ... e.g. demand change, raise our consciousness, educate people, lower our carbon footprint, adopt a particular paradigm of thinking or belief system, love our neighbor, do acts of random kindness, etc. The basic idea is to educate others or model for others what's needed, until there is a "critical mass" that would bring about a "culture change".
We(#2)--us as organizations—We need to ... e.g. develop new battery technologies, model the new way of being in our co-op or eco-village, become more powerful in our political party, etc.
We(#3)—us as official actors—We need to ... e.g. enact new treaties, new laws, new policies, system changes, etc.

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We(#4), We the People ... This is the "almighty we" that, by its existence, addresses the Human Predicament .. which includes climate change and the rest of the Monster Issues.

The We(1,2,3) "solution-approaches" offered by our System are largely blocked from working because our System ultimately causes the climate crisis. Even all together these "solutions" cannot stop the collapse of our civilization because the underlying Human Predicament remains unaffected. For us to become sustainable as a society We(#0), just us, must use the global Wisdom Council Process to spark We(#4) into existence.

You can choose to support "Just Us" or to join with us in sparking We(#4) into existence. We the People can face the climate crisis, figure out the best strategies going forward, coordinate actions, and manage things so that we actually achieve our goals. PLUS, if this We(#4) conversation is ongoing and includes many people, then our existing System can transform from the Box System to the Circle System, where we can become sustainable. ... Please help in this unfolding, exciting project.

More resources

To understand more deeply how this new-paradigm process works see:

The free 5-part video Seminar on "Essential Wisdom for Solving Society's Biggest Issues"

Also for more information see:

Video of the national Citizens Assembly in Austria on Climate Change (Really good stuff but what's needed is a global Wisdom Council Process). See the contrast between the Citizens Assembly and the Wisdom Council Process.
Proposal to Together1st.org This describes our proposed strategy for establishing global governance to the Global Challenges Project. More and more we are thinking "we should just start this project" and stop waiting for some established organization to take it on.
Society's Breakthrough to Climate Change ...Handout (with audio notes) about solving climate change ...
Chart of Solutions to Climate Change ... There are many SOLUTION strategies for climate change. The global Wisdom Council Process is a "HOLUTION", which releases many blocks to these solutions