klima, kryptokonstituce
The open web in the implementation of real adaptation to climate change - Myles Byrne
https://neuroplastic.github.io/climate_social_contract_2020.html
To ethically respond to the climate crisis at all, the GenX, Millenial, & GenZ generations have to act as one, and route around nation-states and the institutional framework built around them.
The basics of this collective action have been described as ‘WWII with everyone on the same side’. The basics of what this entails are obvious, and will not be surprising to anyone who has been paying adequate attention to our collective situation:
universal conscription into global service
rapid universal cessation of further carbon extraction
rapid universal sequestration of carbon
universal redistribution of resources on a global scale to effect 1–3
How these basics are to be implemented is non-obvious, and is the focus of this document.
It is natural to assume that some form of global political institution has to be planned, organised, and ratified through a legal process, in order to implement these steps. However, the combinatorial explosion of the negative synergies we face, and the logistics and mobilisation required in steps 1–4, have already defeated conventional institutions.
A defensible path to implementation would require a system enabling continual, integrated, iterative adaptations across local-global scales. Such a system already exists, in full technical implementation, in the form of the global internet and open web.
The first step on the path to implementation of real adaptation to climate change is to transfer the legal status of humans, from that of being the subjects of nation-states, to being autonomous agents in a formally open web.