In my state, timber tycoons have systematically stripped the forests of usable wood. Having exhausted local resources, they are now migrating to neighbouring states to repeat the extraction cycle.
About five years ago, the state governor enacted a strict logging ban, citing the industry's absolute failure to replace the trees they harvested. For nearly two years, these corporate interests lobbied the government relentlessly to lift the restriction. Throughout this extensive lobbying period, they consistently failed to present any viable reforestation strategy.
Consequently, the governor drafted a state-led initiative. He established a new agency dedicated to reforestation, superseding the existing national forestry department that had long since abandoned its mandate. For six months, this new office functioned as intended. They planted saplings, monitored ecological recovery, and actively regulated logging activities.
Then, regulatory capture took effect. The tycoons successfully bribed the new agency, and all conservation efforts ceased completely. The governor's personal complicity remains unconfirmed; however, the institutional failure is absolute.
Capitalism functions as a purely extractive virus upon the planet. If this economic architecture is allowed to persist, within a few decades the populace will be forced to purchase polluted water and privatised oxygen simply to survive.
And how would this adaptation happen?
sanctus pretty much hit the nail on the head. humans are very adaptable. we just have to choose what we're willing to adapt to.
Fun fact: network based systems are better and faster at adapting to change than hierarchical ones. The only reason why nordic monarchies evolved into what we have today is because europe had a stable climate at the time.
A Federated Society 🙂↕️
Too bad, a majority of the world will rage against such ideas.
Humans cooperate naturally when it is in their best interest. When natural disasters happen people work together to provide each other with food and shelter. The Desktop Regulatory State
With humans it would be a societal or behavioral over genetic. Pretty easy to imagine. As to what would be the catalyst, probably mass migration, starvation, and suffering during the impending climate crisis.