So If I Was To Design A 21st Century Political Movement/Counterbalance…

My goal would be to create something self contained, politically impenetrable, and separate from the current edifice rather than restructuring it. Speeding up reform is near impossible if we only use the political set up we have now. And, human-caused climate change is an existentially urgent pusher of the need for speed.

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Holding down the high temperature average on our planet to “only” a 1.5 degree celsius rise, requires a worldwide 98% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2040. To get anywhere near that is impossible with the political and corporate powered process we currently have.

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Yes, a 2.0 degree average rise is much worse: 37% of the world’s population is subject to severe heatwaves, about every five years; with a 1.5 degree rise, about a third less, or 14% are subject to those severe heatwaves. *And multiple other global warming influenced calamities throughout those years.

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For citizens of the world to push back enough to make a substantial difference, a huge green energy drive forward must be fully underway in the next 3 to 5 years. In the 21st century that kind of dramatic change would likely occur for just two reasons: violent revolution, or a series of extreme climatic stress events. The other option, is a swift and “severe”, yet peaceful restructuring of our current politically and financially powered system. Something Americans have done just once, from 1787–1788, transitioning from the Articles of Confederation to our current constitutional government.

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And the United States is the key part of this worldwide endeavor. That is because we have held, and turned the keys that have driven the world down this road towards climatic disaster. While China and India are raising the bar more rapidly than we did, their recent entry as great polluters will be barely a pinprick of what we have already done, still for many years into the future. Since America led everyone into this CO2 pile up, we are obligated to lead everyone out of it, if at all possible.

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The inability for the U.S. to come to grips with the damage we have done is likely to wear off on other nations. Our…