I’ve got a couple projects I’d like to see completed, but I only have the time and resources to work on one. Both will take a couple years of attention to get running on their own and the tide right now is right for both.
The projects are;
- Funding for Skeptics
- The Apprenticeship Guild
The ‘Funding for Skeptics’ project is finding and getting funding, both public and private, to help AGW skeptics test the alarmists’ claims, especially those of catastrophe. I think it would be a cruel act, indeed joke, for those of us capable of exposing the nonsense to not put an end of it before it really damages our posterity.
The CO2 debate is what organizational change experts call ‘A Wicked Mess’. There is deep rooted belief that catastrophe will strike if action is not taken, and the solutions being pushed result in economic and cultural collapse. We have the damned if we do side, and another side of damned if we don’t. The actions or inaction being promoted by each side are being actively resisted by the opposing. We will never get anywhere this way.
Something that all wicked messes share is they cannot be fixed from the inside. ‘There is no shared interpretation of the breakdown or opportunity. There are multiple stakeholders with social or political reasons to resist proposed solutions. It is difficult to get everyone in the mess to work together because of past and present resentment and distrust.’ ~’The Innovator’s Way‘
No solution exists that satisfies partisans, it is chaotic and adaptive. We can’t fix it within, but we can get around it. Denning and Dunham summarize the way quite nicely in ‘The Innovator’s Way’. We organize collaboration in a local setting, negotiate a structure, and then spread the new organization out to the whole.
Of course it is more complicated than that, but only in magnitude of detailed steps. Yes, it is work and requires a shared vision & cooperation. It is sort of a ‘If we build a new ball field, they will come and adopt it’ narrative. It is a way around the ‘mess’ since resentment and distrust prevents a path out from within.
My vision for ‘Funding for Skeptics’ is for it to get us out of and past this wicked mess called ‘climate change, action, etc’. I want to fund skeptical and critical people so they can rigorously test the alarmist claims and to make their own claims. I believe public funding going towards studying ‘catastrophic effects’ of climate change should go to skeptics determining the ’cause’.
The tide is shifting and the effort to get us out of this mess must be attended to now. Missing and indeed not adding to this tide is only going to set us back years or decades. I hate to sound Alarmist, but if we don’t keep the momentum going, we have no idea how long it will take for it to come back. Prudence dictates we act.
I can’t work on this and The Apprenticeship Guild at the same time, but I can help Funding for Skeptics get off the ground and to Self Sufficiency.
This is no small feat, but it is something that I can help get started and largely automated with the right people working together.
Would a lobby organization that focused on getting Funding for Skeptics be worth looking at?
Warning, the endless Climate debate will come to an end so this conversation won’t be a part of your daily life anymore. Could we handle that?