I was pushing the idea of long-term planning, solutions we can sustain conscionably hopefully forever, to climate change / global warming, & I had made a couple points explaining what I mean that I’d like to share, here & now.

One point was the Long Now Foundation & similar enterprises which I have not happened across, may be useful / helpful / good for us, here, as the focus is the “Long-Term” itself: all applications & facets in general of the long-term, e.g. millenia, not a year or two, for us & our future.

The second point was some things I said explaining why investing time into planning —for the longest haul we can get a handle on — is better for many facets of this problem than simply swinging into action; because altho we feel an urge to ‘do something’ for our constituents, for our descendants, for the journalists naturalists scientists letter-writers & our own selves – ‘doing it right’ is inestimably more important for this massive problem than simply doing something.

Say you’re walking down a natural park’s path – perhaps the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota – & you realize you’re lost – i.e. your problem has an uncertain solution; you could walk whatever way your mind told you to capriciously . . .  maybe you’ll get stinging nettle for walking somewhere you shouldn’t’ve, or get wet or fall in mud; now even if you knew how to resolve this problematic situation right now it would cost you dealing with the problems from going wrong way capriciously – in error — i.e. it is not just a matter of ‘switching over to the right way.’ Also you have to backtrack  when you could’ve just got your bearings, figured out your best option – say follow a river south using your compass or the sunset. You can drink water (possibly). You can bathe. You can catch fish. you won’t walk in circles & lose precious time finding help/civilization again – finding your way when you’re lost.

It’s similar to our situation; we are uncertain of our solutions. aee are at the beginning of this journey – stopping climate change. We could bet it all on what seems like ‘the ticket’ today, just like GHG-emitting carbon-based fuels seemed like a safe thing when we first scientifically discovered, shared the discovery & innovated engineering to use GHG-emitting carbon-based fuels — but say we do that: invest 50% of resources we throw at this problem toward our one rider in the blue; another 5 years of interested parties’ thought & research, research & thought might gift us a much superior solution: problem is you spent 50% on an underplanned, under-thought-out solution; we have 50% less resources – not counting what will be spent UNDOING the first action (remember the stinging nettles?), 5 years less time, AND you have to convince THE WORLD *AGAIN* that **despite being wrong the first time,** ‘this time we’re right.

Good Luck!

Much better to invest time FIRST planning as hardest core as you can; then reap the rewards of knowing what you’re doing when it comes to such a problem as this.

Thank You – Let’s Do This Right The First Time & Be Done With Anything Like This, For Good.

Thank You,
Joe Valentyn