Solving climate change

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

There are eight steps to implementing Society's Breakthrough. This is a 2nd order solution, what we call a "Holution," It's a strategy for addressing the underlying Human Predicament, where our System no longer fits our Situation, which causes many impossible-seeming existential problems like climate change. Basically, SB is a simple set of actions that don't seem like much, but which will transform many of society's biggest "Monster Problems". This is really good news.

More good news--To implement Society's Breakthrough is to facilitate a whole new level of global cooperation. ... More good news: This strategy is accessible, something just a few of us can set in motion—only 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 don't need anyone's permission to begin. Nor do we need to sell it first to a massive number of people. It can start with just us. Still, we'd love for lots of people to understand ahead of time, what this is, how it works, it's benefits and why it must happen" ... and to support this effort.

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

Three 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 already 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 governance governance blocks global carbon taxes. Basically 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 and the power of the people to make it happen.

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 toward choice-creating more primarily than decision-making where we think more holistically and inclusively—including all people, other species, the planet, and future generations.
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 the shared goal. 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 this denial, and reopen closed minds so that new shared understandings can arise.
Overcoming the impact of money-in-politics and partisan gridlock ... Special Interests dominate and corrupt collective decision-making because true collective thinking does not exist in our system. And 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 intelligent actions by governments, corporations and people become possible.
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. Collective consciousness is achieved through one whole-system conversation, where we co-create shared understandings. The magic sauce for achieving this is our ability to facilitate one global conversation in the spirit of choice-creating that reaches unified perspectives. This can be accomplished through a global Wisdom Council Process.

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." So there is now a way to establish a global Constitution. And a new level of global governance. 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. A legitimate "We the People" can assure the capable management of the global commons.
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 anyone or any corporation who adopts this competitor mindset naturally seeks to undermine the commons in favor of profits. Plus in this structure, there is little provision for addressing the common good. Society's Breakthrough promises to transform this System. 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) to the 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 ... The situation has changed for human civilization. Today we are in overshoot, consuming the commons faster than it can replenish. Our civilization cannot survive with capitalism as the economic system. But, through implementing the global Wisdom Council Process is a way to preserve the freedoms of capitalism while adding the missing ingredient: collective intelligence. Keeping everything the same we all need to periodically step back and think together about how we are doing, what we want and strategies going forward. Implementing this sets up 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 charter these organizations to address and managing issues like climate change. Here's how we can assess and collectively choose among radical ideas like geo-engineering, and make intelligent trade-offs among green energy technologies. The global Wisdom Council Process can establish a new unified hierarchy of values with a clear sense of the Public Interest.

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

In any conversation about climate change people will likely start discussing solution possibilities 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 global, all-inclusive "We the People." So instead, it's natural to substitute some other, smaller "We" that can act. Consider these possible We's in "We need to ..."

We (#0) — First, this is just us talking about this crisis— 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 are part of our existing System. Or—and hopefully this is what you will choose—we might help facilitate We(#4) into existence. This is the vital change that's needed, that is currently being ignored. Only a legitimate "We the People" can assure collective intelligence at the global level.

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We(#1)--all of 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, etc. The basic idea is to reach out or model for others 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 can address climate change with the necessary global intelligence and transform the existing System so it stops exacerbating the climate crisis and other monster problems.

The "solution-approaches" offered by our System are largely blocked from working because our System ultimately causes the climate crisis. Even all together these three sets of "solutions" cannot stop the collapse of our civilization because the underlying cause 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. This is "We(#0) choosing to facilitate We(#4). 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 begins to include many people, then this new "We the People" is a structural change to our existing System. The Box/Triangle System can transition to be a Circle System, with a form of governance and economics that works toward the well being of all. ... 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:

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