An overdue realisation has crept up on the world over the past year.
It has been a year of arctic conditions across North America following a blazing summer of wildfires and heatwaves, the dire prognosis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, plummeting insect populations and heart-wrenching images of marine life strangled and poisoned by plastic waste.
Action is needed, fast.
In response, we are seeing heroic innovations, tantalising technologies and corporate sustainability going mainstream. But too often these approaches are geared towards temporary relief and don’t address the root cause of the problem.
We believe the answer lies in embracing systems change.
A system is simply a configuration of parts geared towards an outcome.
A system can be as small as a beehive or as large as the NHS. At Forum for the Future, we see that the greatest challenges arise from our global systems being fundamentally broken: a food system that undermines the ecosystems upon which it relies, an economy which maximises short-term growth over long term viability, or an energy system fuelling runaway emissions and climate breakdown.
System change means reinventing the rules of the game, creating new ways of organising and building refreshed, resilient systems.
jpratt27 
Hi John Thanks for your work on the serious issues plaguing us all.
Just a question and some comments – not for publication.
*Question** **Have you published or seen articles on what is happening to those who believe the future is “black” and humanity’s end is soon?** **If so please point me to some of them.*
What I believe is that the future for humanity and the world in general is bleak and there is no possible remedy. If GW does not do us in then it will be the GSM (grand solar minimum). This will be a 1-2 punch. I have just started reading about the new understanding of the GSM. Wow. This will be like the Little Ice Age in spades. (see the BBC doc on the Little Ice Age)
The political organization of many of the various nations are so “nationalistic” and/or “non-science based” that there is no hope in hell that there will be any concerted agreement on what to do to prevent the situation in which the earth is damaged beyond hope. The US situation with Trump and GW/CC deniers is incredible. We are supposed to be rational and intelligent being but it seems that we are just animals unable to solve this problem.
And as the future descends into madness then other situations will be triggered: wars over water and land and food; mass migration from areas uninhabitable ( Central America to Mexico to US to Canada?); depopulation agendas (sounds like a conspiracy but who knows? – so much fake news flooding the world) rise of fascism/dictators man made epidemic to cut the population in hopes to prevent the end.
Personally, being an analyst by nature and occupation, I see and believe our predicament. I suffer a very mild depression because of it. I also am trying to enjoy family, friends, life and nature (walking and photography)
Cheers Ted ****************************
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Some of the best I’ve seen on this subject is Guy McPherson on YouTube
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I have followed Guy McPherson for years. I attended a small (20 attendees only) live meeting in Vancouver a year or so ago. Do a google search “nature bats last” for much more by him.
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I understand how you feel my blog is my way of dealing with the issue.
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Check out this group on FB- Near Term Human Extinction SUPPORT Group.
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“Have you published or seen articles on what is happening to those who believe the future is “black” and humanity’s end is soon?”
You might like to check out the work of Jem Bendell, and his IFLAS paper 2 on Deep Adaptation.
http://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-paper-on-deep-adaptation-to-climate.html
This paper has been downloaded over 110,000 times, where normally a scientific paper is read on average 3 times by the public.
Rupert Read and his paper IFLAS 3 follow on from this.
http://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/12/post-civilisation-iflas-occasional.html
Having studied the evidence these academics have concluded that collapse is inevitable ( a line of reasoning I’d come to some time ago), so it is no longer a debate about whether climate change exists, whether it is natural or man made, whether we can stop it, but merely a debate about how to adapt to the changes coming with the least amount of harm. With this in mind I am now renaming the Doomosphere as the Changeosphere.
As Greta Thurnberg said, change is coming, whether we like it or not, although that is not the context she perhaps means. Fear of change is what allows things like capitalism, religious intolerance, fascism, racism ec to exist for far too long initiially, humans are naturally like that. But fear of climate change can only eventually lead to Deep Adaptation of some sort, if our species is to survive in any form at all.
By the way GSM will only deduct 0.3% at most from global warming, according to most analysis, so is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Bare in mind back in 1750s were were in a cooling period, so the warming that has happened since then has had to cancel out the inherent cooling back then – it has now been calculated at 10% of the warming, ie 0.11*C currently, before warming even accelarated. In addition those that say we are at 1.1*C above baseline warming are being a little off the mark – they use an 1850 baseline instead of 1750, and the 100 years in between account for another 0.3*C. Add in the 0.11*C and you are looking at current temparature anomaly average of 1.51*C, when compared to a 1750 baseline, which is what they (IPCC et al) used to use. So for them to say we aught to try and avoid 1.5*C warming, it’s a bit too late!
Jam has no opened a forum for people to discuss the concept:
https://deepadaptation.ning.com/
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