https://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&feed=atom&action=historyCi'Num scenario 3: New enlightenment - Revision history2024-03-29T11:36:13ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.37.0https://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&diff=23042&oldid=prevDanielKaplan at 16:05, 18 December 20072007-12-18T16:05:33Z<p></p>
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</table>DanielKaplanhttps://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&diff=23033&oldid=prevSwe at 21:15, 16 December 20072007-12-16T21:15:53Z<p></p>
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</table>Swehttps://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&diff=23032&oldid=prevSwe at 21:10, 16 December 20072007-12-16T21:10:45Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system achieved spectacular results even though it sometimes took things a little too far. Overall, CO2 emissions in 2025 were already 20% below <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their </del>2007 levels in Europe, and 15% in the U.S. The economy kept growing – although slower than before 2008 –<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>but energy sources were moving away from fossil fuels slightly faster than expected.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The system achieved spectacular results even though it sometimes took things a little too far. Overall, CO2 emissions in 2025 were already 20% below 2007 levels in Europe, and 15% in the U.S. The economy kept growing – although slower than before 2008 – but energy sources were moving away from fossil fuels slightly faster than expected.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That </del>same <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year</del>, Mexico city – formerly one of the world's most polluted capitals – finalized a 10-year internationally financed pilot project and became the world's first carbon-neutral metropolis <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>a new high-density centre connected <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">via </del>fast public transport to smaller, dense suburban nodes<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, made up </del>of energy-positive buildings and surrounded by protected green <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">areas</del>. In the rest of the country, 75% of the land became nature parks. While the American Teleworkers in Mexico Guild hailed the move, peasants resisted <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>by violent means<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">almost </del>public backing from the FreeLife Guild.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the </ins>same <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time</ins>, Mexico city – formerly one of the world's most polluted capitals – finalized a 10-year internationally financed pilot project and became the world's first carbon-neutral metropolis<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It encompassed </ins>a new high-density centre connected <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </ins>fast public transport to smaller, dense suburban nodes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consisting </ins>of energy-positive buildings and surrounded by protected green <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">space</ins>. In the rest of the country, 75% of the land became nature parks. While the American Teleworkers in Mexico Guild hailed the move, peasants resisted by violent means with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">near </ins>public backing from the FreeLife Guild.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By that time, most </del>armies were federated into multinational forces of different specialties. Their main concern was the small number of "rogue states", usually oil producing autocracies <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </del>became havens for mafias and terrorist groups. The 2027 invasion of Azerbaijan by UN forces <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provided clear data </del>on these unholy alliances. However, terrorist attacks had by then become a fact of life <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and, due </del>to reasonably effective controls on technologies for weapons of mass destruction, the damage they <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">produced </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unable </del>to destabilize the world. A much smaller multinational force was also called upon to contain the Mexican peasant revolt<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but this </del>intervention created a certain uneasiness among international public opinion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Most </ins>armies were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">now </ins>federated into multinational forces of different specialties. Their main concern was the small number of "rogue states", usually oil producing autocracies<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, which </ins>became havens for mafias and terrorist groups. The 2027 invasion of Azerbaijan by UN forces <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shed light </ins>on these unholy alliances. However, terrorist attacks had by then become a fact of life<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Due </ins>to reasonably effective controls on technologies for weapons of mass destruction, the damage they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inflicted </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">insufficient </ins>to destabilize the world. A much smaller multinational force was also called upon to contain the Mexican peasant revolt<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The </ins>intervention created a certain uneasiness among international public opinion.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In fact, the most destabilizing factor <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </del>become the world's almost excessive stability.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In fact, the most destabilizing factor become the world's almost excessive stability.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As an example, the emphasis on healthy living, responsible <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviour </del>and preventive care focused a lot of researchers on mind enhancements, on increasing life expectancies and on detecting all possible anomalies in embryos. In 2030, reaching 120 was no longer considered <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>exceptional, nor <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>bad luck. In fact, it was harder to be young. The financial burden of paying for retirement <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had become </del>lighter after <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old-age activity </del>became <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">generalized</del>. But the world was designed by old people (who<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, through </del>embryo selection and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other </del>gene manipulations<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, even designed part of their own young</del>) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for old people, </del>and these individuals, being rightly proud of their achievements, were unready to hand the reins to possibly less reasonable generations.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As an example, the emphasis on healthy living, responsible <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behavior </ins>and preventive care focused a lot of researchers on mind enhancements, on increasing life expectancies and on detecting all possible anomalies in embryos. In 2030, reaching 120 was no longer considered exceptional, nor bad luck. In fact, it was harder to be young. The financial burden of paying for retirement <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">became </ins>lighter after <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elderly people </ins>became <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">commonly active</ins>. But the world was designed by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old people for </ins>old people (who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even designed members of their own offspring with </ins>embryo selection and gene manipulations)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>and these individuals, being rightly proud of their achievements, were unready to hand the reins to possibly less reasonable generations.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of course, not everyone welcomed the new environmental <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">commitment</del>. Free market advocates warned that the surge in regulatory activity would stifle growth and could produce consequences worse than the problems they were meant to solve. Oil producers, who had been investing heavily in new extraction methods and planned on continued growth in oil demand, began to feel anxious. Their lobbying efforts against ecotaxes were impeded by a general feeling that the companies were at least ethically - and in some cases, politically - responsible for the state of the planet. And indeed, California passed an ecotax in 2012, followed by the EU in 2013.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of course, not everyone welcomed the new environmental <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bias</ins>. Free market advocates warned that the surge in regulatory activity would stifle growth and could produce consequences worse than the problems they were meant to solve. Oil producers, who had been investing heavily in new extraction methods and planned on continued growth in oil demand, began to feel anxious. Their lobbying efforts against ecotaxes were impeded by a general feeling that the companies were at least ethically - and in some cases, politically - responsible for the state of the planet. And indeed, California passed an ecotax in 2012, followed by the EU in 2013.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in the capital cities of the group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves)that were spearheading the sustainability agenda, there were serious doubts about who <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ordered them </del>and provided the means. The attack in London on the closing eve of the 2012 Olympics killed more than 4,000 people. These games were meant to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event. Rome, a leading proponent of the European ecotax, Delhi,whose government had announced plans to lead a second "green revolution" based on agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and a strong focus on agrofuels, and San Francisco were the other targeted cities.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in the capital cities of the group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves)that were spearheading the sustainability agenda, there were serious doubts about who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">issued the order </ins>and provided the means. The attack in London on the closing eve of the 2012 Olympics killed more than 4,000 people. These games were meant to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event. Rome, a leading proponent of the European ecotax, Delhi,whose government had announced plans to lead a second "green revolution" based on agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and a strong focus on agrofuels, and San Francisco were the other targeted cities.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Paradigm Shifts==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Paradigm Shifts==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To counterbalance these powers and ensure accountability, all internal information and email traffic of the agencies were subject to rigorous public disclosure; and each area of activity had its own discussion plaza on the Metaverse in which thousands of lobbyists, interest groups and private citizens participated at least occasionally.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To counterbalance these powers and ensure accountability, all internal information and email traffic of the agencies were subject to rigorous public disclosure; and each area of activity had its own discussion plaza on the Metaverse in which thousands of lobbyists, interest groups and private citizens participated at least occasionally.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">third </del>Doha round of international trade finally produced an agreement in 2022, 21 years after its launch. The agreement included the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">abandon of most </del>Least Advanced Countries<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">' debts</del>, the dismantlement of agricultural subsidies in developed countries (including the EU's Common Agricultural Policy), the opening of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">northern market </del>to products from the South. Perhaps its most innovative provision was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>clear encouragement to "offshoring" of service-related activities<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>seen as a way to help developing countries the resource-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hungry </del>industrial <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">development </del>phase <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>and possibly, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>relieve migratory pressures<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, so that </del>developed countries <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </del>more easily set up immigration quotas based on their needs and common training & co-development programmes.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Doha round of international trade finally produced an agreement in 2022, 21 years after its launch. The agreement included <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">debt forgiveness for most of </ins>the Least Advanced Countries, the dismantlement of agricultural subsidies in developed countries (including the EU's Common Agricultural Policy), <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>the opening of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">markets in the North </ins>to products from the South. Perhaps its most innovative provision was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>clear encouragement to "offshoring" of service-related activities<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It was </ins>seen as a way to help developing countries <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">avoid </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">need to go through </ins>resource-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intensive </ins>industrial phase <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in their transition, </ins>and possibly, relieve migratory pressures <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>developed countries<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This would allow the latter to </ins>more easily set up immigration quotas based on their needs and common training & co-development programmes.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>R&D was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mostly </del>coordinated <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">internationally </del>according to globally defined priorities: genetically modified organisms that displayed desirable <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">characteristics </del>(resistance, frugality<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) or properties (e.g.</del>, CO2 absorption), preventive and proactive <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">medicine</del>, resource efficiency, smart processes and logistics, smart transport systems, rich remote communications, complex system <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modelling… </del>Most of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this </del>research was entirely public and open-source. However, a side effect of globally centralized funding was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>lack of diversity and of openness to small projects or out-of-the-box thinking. This became worse <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when, </del>after the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fast </del>deployment of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">insufficiently </del>tested plants <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had wiped out the </del>agriculture <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of a whole </del>Indian state<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Ethics and Evaluation Committees were <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created </del>everywhere and given veto power on research projects as well as on testing and industry transfer.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>R&D was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">primarily </ins>coordinated <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on an international basis, </ins>according to globally defined priorities: genetically modified organisms that displayed desirable <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">properties </ins>(resistance, frugality, CO2 absorption), preventive and proactive <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">medicines</ins>, resource efficiency, smart processes and logistics, smart transport systems, rich remote communications, complex system <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modeling, etc.. </ins>Most of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>research was entirely <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">available to the </ins>public and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was made </ins>open-source. However, a side effect of globally centralized funding was lack of diversity and of openness to small projects or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unconventional (</ins>out-of-the-box<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins>thinking. This became worse after the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">premature </ins>deployment of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inadequately </ins>tested plants <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which damaged </ins>agriculture <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">across an entire </ins>Indian state<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </ins>Ethics and Evaluation Committees were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">established </ins>everywhere and given veto power on research projects as well as on testing and industry transfer.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To facilitate </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">equalize international discussions</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Esperanto was relaunched and </del>became <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the UN's official language… for some time</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after which it became clear that </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">International English</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would not </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">displaced anytime soon</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially since electronic translators </del>had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">become so efficient</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While the system seemed to organize itself well enough at global </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">regional levels</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making it work at the individual level </ins>became <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an issue. National governments were too remote or too discredited, or both. In spite of strong opposition by governments</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">another layer of governance soon emerged. It came to be called "guilds". A </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">guild</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could be a commune, a neighbourhood, a parish, a corporation, an association, an organized ethnic minority or even an extended family. Thus, an individual could belong to several guilds. A guild had a charter, an organization, leadership, rules for membership, mechanisms for making and enforcing decisions, and relationships to other guilds. To </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">considered a guild</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </ins>had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be recognized by a number of other guilds. Depending on a number of criteria, guilds could be given some regulatory powers and tax money. Through them, decisions at the global and national levels were adapted to local realities and enforced</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While the system seemed to organize itself well enough at global and regional levels, the issue remained to make it work at an individual level. National governments were either too remote, or too discredited, or both. In spite of strong opposition by governments, another level of governance soon emerged, which came to be called "guilds". A "guild" could be a commune, a neighbourhood, a parish, a corporation, an association, an organized ethnic minority or even an extended family – meaning that an individual could belong to several guilds. It would have a charter, an organization, leadership, rules for membership, mechanisms for making and enforcing decisions, and relationships to other guilds – to be considered a guild, you had to be recognized by a number of other guilds. Depending on a number of criteria, guilds could be devolved some regulatory power or some tax money. Through them, the virtuous mechanisms decided at global and national levels were adapted to local realities and enforced.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In many countries, individuals and corporations (at least the mid- to large-size ones) were also given "Carbon Footprint Accounts" that tracked their energy consumption, their direct and indirect carbon emissions, their recycling <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">activities</ins>, etc., <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and were attached to </ins>financial incentives or penalties. While individual accounts were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">confidential</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the accounts </ins>of corporations and of public bodies were publicly accessible. A consumer could even scan a product with her mobile <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while shopping </ins>in order to check <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the status of the </ins>producer's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">carbon footprint</ins>. Guilds were often in charge of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distributing </ins>and controlling the accounts, consolidating <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>data and enforcing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>financial mechanisms. The budget they received was itself indexed on their collective performance.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In many countries, individuals and corporations (at least the mid- to large-size ones) were also given "Carbon Footprint Accounts" that tracked their energy consumption, their direct and indirect carbon emissions, their recycling <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviours</del>, etc., <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>financial incentives or penalties <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attached</del>. While individual accounts were <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of course protected</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">those </del>of corporations and of public bodies were publicly accessible. A consumer could even scan a product <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a shop </del>with her mobile in order to check <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>producer's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">current Footprint status</del>. Guilds were often in charge of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emitting </del>and controlling the accounts, consolidating data and enforcing financial mechanisms. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">devolved </del>budget they received was itself indexed on their collective performance.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Overregulation==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Overregulation==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Spectacular </del>results <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were achieved, although the system could </del>sometimes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take </del>things a little too far. Overall, CO2 emissions in 2025 were already 20% below their 2007 levels in Europe, and 15% in the U.S. The economy kept growing – although slower than before 2008 –, but energy sources were moving away from fossil fuels slightly faster than expected.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The system achieved spectacular </ins>results <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even though it </ins>sometimes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took </ins>things a little too far. Overall, CO2 emissions in 2025 were already 20% below their 2007 levels in Europe, and 15% in the U.S. The economy kept growing – although slower than before 2008 –, but energy sources were moving away from fossil fuels slightly faster than expected.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While </del>the usual immediate consequences <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of such attacks unfolded – </del>stock market crashes, sharp reduction in air travel, security measures <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">than </del>soon became permanent, economic <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ripple effects… – </del>a most unexpected thing happened: Governments did not budge <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>renewed their commitments to greener growth.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The attacks unleashed </ins>the usual immediate consequences<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </ins>stock market crashes, sharp reduction in air travel, security measures <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </ins>soon became permanent, economic <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ripples that were worrying in their effects. But, </ins>a most unexpected thing happened: Governments did not budge<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Instead, they </ins>renewed their commitments to greener growth.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Travel restrictions were converted into <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an opportunity </del>to "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Move </del>less, do more", as UN <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ambassador </del>Bono <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">put it</del>. In spite of intense lobbying by airlines and the aerospace industry, air travel was severely taxed and caps were imposed on air traffic towards several major destinations. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As a substitute</del>, governments and foundations encouraged research on "lifelike" remote communications and installed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life-size </del>teleconferencing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rooms </del>in developed and developing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">country metropolis </del>alike, encouraging people to tele-act <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather than move </del>as much as possible. Results were initially mixed, but with the right financial incentives and penalties in place, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as well as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">progress in </del>rich sensory interfaces, telework, telepresence and other forms of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">remote </del>communications slowly picked up. Virtual universes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that had spun off in </del>different parts of the world started connecting through a "Metaverse", <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>become one of the most powerful means of organizing remote interactions and public forums with a real sense of common presence.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Travel restrictions were converted into <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opportunities </ins>to "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">move </ins>less, do more", as UN <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ambassador </ins>Bono <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suggested</ins>. In spite of intense lobbying by airlines and the aerospace industry, air travel was severely taxed and caps were imposed on air traffic towards several major destinations. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To provide alternatives</ins>, governments and foundations encouraged research on "lifelike" remote <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and virtual </ins>communications<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and installed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">large </ins>teleconferencing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">facilities </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the metropolitan areas of </ins>developed and developing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">countries </ins>alike, encouraging people to tele-act as much as possible. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>Results were initially mixed, but with the right financial incentives and penalties in place, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">development of </ins>rich sensory interfaces, telework, telepresence and other forms of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distance </ins>communications slowly picked up <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in popularity</ins>. Virtual universes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </ins>different parts of the world started connecting through a "Metaverse", <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>become one of the most powerful means of organizing remote interactions and public forums with a real sense of common presence.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Managed </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a deeply </del>reorganized World Bank and funded through a special <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contribution </del>by developed countries<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, the "Oil Severance Project" was launched</del>. Its goal was to design and co-finance large-scale projects with the potential to make countries or industries less dependent on fossil <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">energy</del>: very large wind farms or solar panel fields, experimental sea-bottom turbines, ultra-fast train networks. The "New Paradigms in Resource Production and Use" research programme was another major international initiative, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">looking for </del>out-of-the-box ideas for industrial processes and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transportations </del>that would use less energy and resources and produce less emissions and permanent waste. One of the programme<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s rules </del>was that results <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">should </del>be public and open-source.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The "Oil Severance Project" was launched. It was managed </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an extensively </ins>reorganized World Bank and funded through a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">system of </ins>special <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contributions </ins>by developed countries. Its goal was to design and co-finance large-scale projects with the potential to make countries or industries less dependent on fossil <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fuels</ins>: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such as, </ins>very large wind farms or solar panel fields, experimental sea-bottom turbines, ultra-fast train networks. The "New Paradigms in Resource Production and Use" research programme was another major international initiative<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It was launched to spur innovative</ins>, out-of-the-box ideas for industrial processes and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transportation </ins>that would use less energy and resources and produce less emissions and permanent waste. One <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of the requirements </ins>of the programme was that results be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made </ins>public and open-source.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some tough </del>discussions, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not </del>a few resignations<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>among <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>economists, the IMF and the World Bank even adopted the Human Development Index as a key indicator, and started linking all financing activities to total cost calculations, including environmental and social externalities.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficult </ins>discussions, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more than </ins>a few resignations among <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their </ins>economists, the IMF and the World Bank even adopted the Human Development Index as a key indicator, and started linking all financing activities to total cost calculations, including environmental and social externalities.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A "Climate Solidarity Fund" was also created in 2013, and came to immediate use when cyclones of unprecedented strength<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, following an unusually wet rainy season, </del>hit Bangladesh, killing or displacing millions and ruining most of the country's infrastructure. Coordinated by the UN's Fast Response Corps created <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">along </del>with the Fund, public and NGO relief actions worked miracles, although some areas <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would </del>remain inhabitable for decades.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A "Climate Solidarity Fund" was also created in 2013, and came to immediate use when cyclones of unprecedented strength hit Bangladesh, killing or displacing millions and ruining most of the country's infrastructure. Coordinated by the UN's Fast Response Corps<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>created <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in tandem </ins>with the Fund, public and NGO relief actions worked miracles, although some areas <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will </ins>remain inhabitable for decades <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to come</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Such <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>turnaround in human affairs required <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some </del>organizing.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Such turnaround in human affairs required <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">substantial </ins>organizing.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The UN <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was only too happy to provide </del>its <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">basis</del>, although governments also insisted on creating two separate, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hopefully </del>leaner and meaner<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>international agencies: ClimaPlan, dealing with climate change, NoWaste, dealing with CO2 emissions, pollution and waste, and PowerShift, dealing with renewable energy and energy efficiency. These agencies were given <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">real </del>supranational powers to enforce decisions, and fund large-scale projects. "Oil Severance" was succeeded by two programmes<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>"Factor 4" – <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">taking into </del>account <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>Kyoto III discussions, which were looking at a 75% reduction in emissions over 2007 levels by 2060 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>and "Emergency Readiness" – designed to forecast, detect and manage extreme climate-related catastrophes and their aftermath. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But perhaps </del>the most innovative (and controversial) decision was to give these agencies some supervisory power over national, local or corporate environmental regulations and programmes.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The UN <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">willingly provided </ins>its <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">base</ins>, although governments also insisted on creating two separate, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but expectantly </ins>leaner and meaner international agencies: ClimaPlan, dealing with climate change, NoWaste, dealing with CO2 emissions, pollution and waste, and PowerShift, dealing with renewable energy and energy efficiency. These agencies were given <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">substantive </ins>supranational powers to enforce decisions, and fund large-scale projects. "Oil Severance" was succeeded by two programmes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </ins>"Factor 4" – <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that takes </ins>account <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </ins>Kyoto III discussions, which were looking at a 75% reduction in emissions over 2007 levels by 2060<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>and "Emergency Readiness" – designed to forecast, detect and manage extreme climate-related catastrophes and their aftermath. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perhaps </ins>the most innovative (and controversial) decision was to give these agencies some supervisory power over national, local or corporate environmental regulations and programmes.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third Doha <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cycle on </del>international trade finally produced an agreement in 2022, 21 years after its launch. The agreement included the abandon of most Least Advanced Countries' debts, the dismantlement of agricultural subsidies in developed countries (including the EU's Common Agricultural Policy), the opening of northern market to products from the South. Perhaps its most innovative provision was a clear encouragement to "offshoring" of service-related activities, seen as a way to help developing countries the resource-hungry industrial development phase – and possibly, to relieve migratory pressures, so that developed countries could more easily set up immigration quotas based on their needs and common training & co-development programmes.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The third Doha <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">round of </ins>international trade finally produced an agreement in 2022, 21 years after its launch. The agreement included the abandon of most Least Advanced Countries' debts, the dismantlement of agricultural subsidies in developed countries (including the EU's Common Agricultural Policy), the opening of northern market to products from the South. Perhaps its most innovative provision was a clear encouragement to "offshoring" of service-related activities, seen as a way to help developing countries the resource-hungry industrial development phase – and possibly, to relieve migratory pressures, so that developed countries could more easily set up immigration quotas based on their needs and common training & co-development programmes.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Swehttps://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&diff=23029&oldid=prevSwe at 17:12, 16 December 20072007-12-16T17:12:58Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in the capital cities of the group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves)that were spearheading the sustainability agenda, there were serious doubts about <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where the owho made the decision </del>and provided the means <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of as to where the decision and the means of execution came from</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </del>London on the eve of the 2012 Olympics <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">closure, killing </del>more than 4,000 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people… London's Olympics </del>were to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>Rome, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the second targeted city, was </del>a leading proponent of the European ecotax<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; San Francisco was the third and </del>Delhi <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the fourth</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a few months after the Indian </del>government had announced <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>plans to lead a second "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Green </del>revolution" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the third world, this time mixing </del>agricultural productivity <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>environmental sustainability <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">– </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>a strong focus on agrofuels.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in the capital cities of the group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves)that were spearheading the sustainability agenda, there were serious doubts about <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who ordered them </ins>and provided the means. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The attack in </ins>London on the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">closing </ins>eve of the 2012 Olympics <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">killed </ins>more than 4,000 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people. These games </ins>were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meant </ins>to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </ins>Rome, a leading proponent of the European ecotax<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>Delhi,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whose </ins>government had announced plans to lead a second "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">green </ins>revolution" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">based on </ins>agricultural productivity<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>environmental sustainability and a strong focus on agrofuels<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and San Francisco were the other targeted cities</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Swehttps://www.scenariothinking.org/index.php?title=Ci%27Num_scenario_3:_New_enlightenment&diff=23028&oldid=prevSwe at 16:56, 16 December 20072007-12-16T16:56:23Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Age of Enlightenment saw the birth of reason and progress, which societies to organize themselves around reason and rationality. Nearly 400 years later, a new age is born: the New Enlightenment in which societies organize themselves around the principle of sustainability. Citizens and governments achieve a level of global consciousness that allows them to make a deliberate, common effort to prepare for a better future. Rules and regulations are enforced at local and global scales to reduce emissions and energy consumption. Taxes and other incentives try to orient corporate and consumer behaviors towards sustainability. Major projects with global or regional funding produce huge windfarms or solar plants, and test new technologies on a grand scale. Development becomes a priority, with the aim of helping countries leap-frog over developmental phases that are reliant on resource-intensive, heavy industries. "Guilds" emerge as ways of organizing people on a regional, local or community levels. Strong collective pressure is applied to "deviant" behaviors, be they individual, corporate or national. There is open democratic discussion; but decisions are rigorously enforced. Scientific research and technological innovation is subject to strong ethical oversight and funded according to its contribution to common goals, including the goal to broaden the public domain for sharing knowledge and capabilities.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Age of Enlightenment saw the birth of reason and progress, which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influenced </ins>societies to organize themselves around reason and rationality. Nearly 400 years later, a new age is born: the New Enlightenment in which societies organize themselves around the principle of sustainability. Citizens and governments achieve a level of global consciousness that allows them to make a deliberate, common effort to prepare for a better future. Rules and regulations are enforced at local and global scales to reduce emissions and energy consumption. Taxes and other incentives try to orient corporate and consumer behaviors towards sustainability. Major projects with global or regional funding produce huge windfarms or solar plants, and test new technologies on a grand scale. Development becomes a priority, with the aim of helping countries leap-frog over developmental phases that are reliant on resource-intensive, heavy industries. "Guilds" emerge as ways of organizing people on a regional, local or community levels. Strong collective pressure is applied to "deviant" behaviors, be they individual, corporate or national. There is open democratic discussion; but decisions are rigorously enforced. Scientific research and technological innovation is subject to strong ethical oversight and funded according to its contribution to common goals, including the goal to broaden the public domain for sharing knowledge and capabilities.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The true impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was not quite what China expected. China had expected the world to stand in awe of its accomplishments<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and it had every reason to</del>. But the world chose to question China about the reports that were brought back by tourists and journalists traveling around the country: reports of polluted rivers, of dangerous chemical factories operating in the midst of newly built cities, of massive expropriations and exploitation<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>and of the suffocating heat and toxic air that threatened the athletes. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The true impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was not quite what China expected. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Understandably, </ins>China had expected the world to stand in awe of its accomplishments.But the world chose to question China about the reports that were brought back by tourists and journalists traveling around the country: reports of polluted rivers, of dangerous chemical factories operating in the midst of newly built cities, of massive expropriations and exploitation<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and of the suffocating heat and toxic air that threatened the athletes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">themselves</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>None of this should have come as a surprise to keen observers. But to billions of people, it was a shocking revelation. And it got them thinking: Is ''this'' what the world is turning into? Which was, of course, what a small group of Chinese intellectuals and entrepreneurs, with connections at the very top of the Communist Party, had in mind.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>None of this should have come as a surprise to keen observers. But to billions of people, it was a shocking revelation. And it got them thinking: Is ''this'' what the world is turning into? Which was, of course, what a small group of Chinese intellectuals and entrepreneurs, with connections at the very top of the Communist Party, had in mind.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Media, bloggers and common citizens began connecting facts. Oil had passed $ 150 a barrel, pushing gasoline and other prices <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">up, </del>pulling growth down. Seemingly aberrant and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local </del>climate events, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such as </del>near-tropical rains in Britain while Europe's South-East suffered <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">draughts </del>and scorching heat<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, began to form a pattern</del>. The web was abuzz. People started collecting, sharing and cross-analyzing data in innovative ways; papers and analyses, some serious, some not, circulated and made their way into <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">traditional </del>media<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; climate </del>specialists <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opened up </del>some of their models for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">public </del>use and even<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, improvement</del>. One provocative website, SUVtheplanet.org, asked <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its </del>visitors to expose anyone<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s, </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their neighbour's </del>to celebrities<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">', irresponsible environmental behaviours, </del>forcing many individuals and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some </del>corporations to issue public <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">apologies </del>and commitment to better practices.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Media, bloggers and common citizens began connecting facts. Oil had passed $ 150 a barrel, pushing gasoline and other prices <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>pulling growth down. Seemingly aberrant and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">localised at first, </ins>climate events <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">began to form a pattern; for example</ins>, near-tropical rains in Britain while Europe's South-East suffered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">droughts </ins>and scorching heat. The web was abuzz. People started collecting, sharing and cross-analyzing data in innovative ways; papers and analyses, some serious, some not, circulated and made their way into <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mainstream </ins>media<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Climate </ins>specialists <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made </ins>some of their models <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">available to the public </ins>for use<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and even <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modification</ins>. One provocative website, SUVtheplanet.org, asked visitors to expose <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">irresponsible environmental behavior; in essence, to name-and-shame </ins>anyone <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">neighbours </ins>to celebrities <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>forcing many individuals and corporations to issue public <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">statements </ins>and commitment to better practices.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Barak Obama was quick </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">feel </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shift in public feeling</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He brought AL Gore onboard his campaign trail</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">switched his pitch from Iraq </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">environment – </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">won </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">November 2008 U</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">S</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">presidential election</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A progressive candidate took office in the U.S. presidency, and actively drove the second round of Kyoto discussions </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conclusion at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end of 2009</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Europe and all other G8 countries committed to halving their CO2 emissions by 2050</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and to meeting five years later </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consider more ambitious goals. For the first time, most emerging economies </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">developing countries - with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exception of China, which still insisted on voluntary action - also agreed to CO2 emission reductions. The terms of the agreement called for developed countries to provide financial help, technology transfer and more importantly, open markets--terms that were mostly met</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Within one year, 183 countries had signed the Kyoto II protocol</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Doha round of trade negotiations reopened and made swift progress, despite strong protests from the West</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As soon as he took office</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Obama boosted the second round of Kyoto discussions, actively driving them </del>to a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conclusion at the end of 2009. Europe </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all other G8 countries committed to halving their CO2 emissions by 2050</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meeting again 5 years down the road in order to consider more ambitious goals</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For the first time</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most emerging economies </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">developing countries (China being the exception) also agreed to CO2 emission reductions</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">under the condition that developed countries would provide financial help</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">technology transfer and more importantly</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">open up their markets </del>- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which they mostly did. The Doha trade negotiation cycle was reopened </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made swift progress</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">despite strong protests in the West. Within one year</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">183 countries had signed the Kyoto II protocol</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In political circles</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"green" became a passport </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">election. Everyone came up with </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new idea: SUVs were banned from several cities </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">states, private swimming pools were heavily taxed, garbage recycling was made mandatory</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">air conditioning was subject </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">restrictions</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Public funding for R&D was reoriented towards sustainability</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a focus on quick </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">visible results: Renewable energy</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">energy efficiency</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">resource-efficiecy</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nutrient</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rich genetically modified plants </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">animals, ecosystem modeling</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next-generation nuclear energy</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">etc</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In political circles, "Green" had become a passport to election</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Everybody came up with their new idea: SUVs were banned from several cities </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">states, private swimming pools were heavily taxed, garbage recycling was made mandatory, climatization became subject to strict rules</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Public R&D funding was reoriented towards sustainability</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a focus on quick and visible results: Renewable energy</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">energy efficiency</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">resource-efficient </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nutrient genetically modified plants and animals, ecosystem modelling, next-generation nuclear energy, etc</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Corporations followed suit</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All major corporations published environmental commitments </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many effectively fulfilled them</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Smaller corporations and developing country firms</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">experienced more difficulty</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">protested that this was another way of pressuring subcontractors or of closing the door to smaller competitors</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Corporations followed suit</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All large corporations published environmental commitments </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many </del>were <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">serious about fulfilling them</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Smaller corporations and developing country firms, though</del>, had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more difficulties </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">often complained this move was another way of putting pressure </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subcontractors or </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">closing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">door to smaller competitors</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of course, not everyone welcomed the new environmental commitment</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free market advocates warned that the surge in regulatory activity would stifle growth </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could produce consequences worse than the problems they </ins>were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meant to solve</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Oil producers</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </ins>had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">been investing heavily in new extraction methods </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">planned </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continued growth in oil demand, began to feel anxious. Their lobbying efforts against ecotaxes were impeded by a general public feeling that the companies were at least ethically - and in some cases, politically - responsible for the state </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">planet. And indeed, California passed an ecotax in 2012, followed by the EU in 2013</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of course, not everybody liked that new environmental bias. Free market advocates warned that this surge in regulatory activity would stifle growth and might produce consequences worse than the problems they were supposed to solve. Oil producers, who had until then been investing heavily in new extraction methods, planning on continued growth of demand, started worrying. Their lobbying efforts against ecotaxes were made difficult by the general feeling that they were at least (and in some cases, politically) morally responsible for the state of the planet – and indeed, California passed an ecotax in 2012, followed by the EU in 2013.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the capital cities </ins>of the group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that were spearheading the sustainability agenda</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there were serious doubts about where the owho made the decision and provided the means of as to where the decision and the means of execution came from.</ins>including London on the eve of the 2012 Olympics closure, killing more than 4,000 people… London's Olympics were to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event; Rome, the second targeted city, was a leading proponent of the European ecotax; San Francisco was the third and Delhi the fourth, a few months after the Indian government had announced its plans to lead a second "Green revolution" in the third world, this time mixing agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability – and with a strong focus on agrofuels.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So when a series of deadly bombs went off almost simultaneously in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">capitals that were all part </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spearheading </del>group of "enlightened" countries (as they called themselves), including London on the eve of the 2012 Olympics closure, killing more than 4,000 people… <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">well, there were serious doubts as to where the decision and the means of execution came from. </del>London's Olympics were to be the first "carbon-neutral" major sports event; Rome, the second targeted city, was a leading proponent of the European ecotax; San Francisco was the third and Delhi the fourth, a few months after the Indian government had announced its plans to lead a second "Green revolution" in the third world, this time mixing agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability – and with a strong focus on agrofuels.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Citizens and governments achieve a level of global consciousness that allows them to make a deliberate, common effort to prepare for a better future. Rules and regulations are enforced at local and global scales to reduce emissions and energy consumption. Taxes and other incentives try to orient corporate and consumer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviours </del>towards sustainability. Major projects with global or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continental </del>funding produce huge windfarms or solar plants, and test new technologies <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </del>a grand scale. Development becomes a priority, with the aim of helping <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fast development beyond the </del>resource-intensive, heavy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-industry phases</del>. "Guilds" emerge as ways of organizing people <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">less-than-global scale</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">along geographic </del>or community <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bounds</del>. Strong collective pressure is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imposed on </del>"deviant" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviours</del>, be they individual, corporate or national. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Democratic discussion </del>is open<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>but decisions are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strongly </del>enforced. Scientific research and technological innovation is subject to strong ethical <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">overseeing </del>and funded according to its contribution to common goals, including the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will </del>to broaden the public domain <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </del>knowledge and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">share </del>capabilities.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Age of Enlightenment saw the birth of reason and progress, which societies to organize themselves around reason and rationality. Nearly 400 years later, a new age is born: the New Enlightenment in which societies organize themselves around the principle of sustainability. </ins>Citizens and governments achieve a level of global consciousness that allows them to make a deliberate, common effort to prepare for a better future. Rules and regulations are enforced at local and global scales to reduce emissions and energy consumption. Taxes and other incentives try to orient corporate and consumer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviors </ins>towards sustainability. Major projects with global or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">regional </ins>funding produce huge windfarms or solar plants, and test new technologies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>a grand scale. Development becomes a priority, with the aim of helping <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">countries leap-frog over developmental phases that are reliant on </ins>resource-intensive, heavy <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">industries</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>"Guilds" emerge as ways of organizing people <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">regional</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local </ins>or community <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">levels</ins>. Strong collective pressure is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">applied to </ins>"deviant" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">behaviors</ins>, be they individual, corporate or national. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There </ins>is open <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">democratic discussion; </ins>but decisions are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rigorously </ins>enforced. Scientific research and technological innovation is subject to strong ethical <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">oversight </ins>and funded according to its contribution to common goals, including the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">goal </ins>to broaden the public domain <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for sharing </ins>knowledge and capabilities.</div></td></tr>
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