Sometimes you write with more confidence than in others, Mike. I admired how you appeared to keep your head when all others seemed to be losing theirs during covid, including me. I remember getting to a point during covid when I couldn't write any longer, it seemed futile, and death rates were too high, it was beyond my ability to process emotionally. But I did keep observing and keep taking notes, using the non verbal (Graphical modeling) techniques I've bicone accustomed to thinking in terms of, as a result of previous requirements made of me by industry, in order to fix systemic problems on the many various projects I've had pleasure to work on in industry.
I kept building up the formal system model using my preferred toolset, Sparx Enterprise Architect (TM), the model maintained in an industrial database on a secondary server I maintain.
I carried on cranking the handle of this formal systems analysis I'd voluntarily started in 2017, when it became apparent we were going to run into a systemic global energy problem. I carried on building up the multidisciplinary system model, maintained in the specialist toolsets and languages of my longstanding trade, showing the difference between how nature works, and how we work, and what we need to do, forced by nature, to confiorm with nature.
The system model describing all of this includes a complete analysis of all the main driving forces in terms of energy, and in terms of human and natural motivations. It's cross-disciplinary, piecing together the main driving forces in each discipline, including financial, and even the driving forces and historical influences of religions, not just one, but all the ones I know anything about, learning more about the ones I didn't, adding those in also (especially Yoruba, which appears more relevant than any others now)
What is apparent to me, the more time has gone on, is an apparent systemic intelligence associated with actually the more formally educated of us.
To me there are two kinds of self imposed stupidity, the first is having too much money, and the second is having too much formal education.
There, I said it, too much formal education results in us losing touch with systemic reality, in a similar way as does too much money. I don't know if the two together might cancel anything out, there might be a study there for another day.
I am not immune, I spent ten years in full time STEM education, gaining an Engineering diploma and two Engineering degrees, honors, and masters, at the start of my career, coming to the end of what I see was my old career now, with the realisation it was unsustainable due to the looming global enetgy problem during PhD candidate virtual world research work.
Apologies fir the messy way I tried to explain that.
More is below, much more coherently in it's own story, I wish folk, especially the more formally educated, could understand and remember more of this:
https://eric-bott.medium.com/forget-greenhouse-gases-ef857af9b168