E Sawin
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1506723197902807054.htmlwe can't know today, in detail, what that future will look like or how it will unfold.
We can know many of the conditions. Like reduced throughput of material and energy. And equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. And different solutions for different cultures and bioregions.
But, at this late date, I think that the pathway to those conditions will pass through shocks and destabilizations, and reckonings with harmful worldviews of supremacy and domination, which will create their own sense of destabilization for those of us most invested in them.
Which is not to stay there's no steering. Or that nothing matters. It matters more than ever what values you embody. What futures you imagine. Whether you divest from worldviews of supremacy or not. Whether you walk away from systems shaped by those worldviews.
Because in chaotic transitions when all sorts of things, good and bad (new tech, new ideas, old ways of knowing, big disasters) are hitting at once, it's visions, values, and worldviews that have some ability to steer through the tumult.
I can't prove this, of course. And some prefer to declare all is lost rather than exist with this deep uncertainty. Others demand the big plan that explains how we will change everything, and declare anything less insufficient.