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Very insightful. As someone raised in a Eurocentric education system but not being of European origin and subsequently living in three “developing” countries and traveling to much more, I find the depth of thought in this post incredibly hopeful.

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Thank You, as a person who could clearly see the destruction of Our biosphere (climate system) by age 39 in 2004 and entered university in 2005 to study to address it - and was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum "Disorder" (ASD) about 2 years ago I appreciate your insights.

I see our climate system as the interconnected living totality it is, a system of systems that evolved from Earths abiotic formation then became "Gaia" as defined by lovelock in " the practical science odmf planetary medicine" - 2000 edition, and have drafted a summary of the evolution of our climate system we are part of.

Thus my definition of Anthropogenic Climate Change covers all our destructive actions which currently predominate - and potential constructive actions which I have encompassed in the term " Ecologically Responsible Geoengineering" which basically involves rapidly restoring a functional biosphere using dynamic context appropriate technologies where they will have positive impacts and diverse effective actions could produce positive "climate change" impacts far greater than the sum of their parts.

Currently diverse destructive actions are producing destructive outcomes far greater than the sum of their parts.

I prefer the term "Autistic Spectrum Condition" as related in a recent BBC article.

I believe the "disorder" is contextual - it is reasonable to be disorderly In the face of injustice and deliberate misunderstanding as occurs when members of the normal powerful majority deliberately or by rote learned brainless habit - project whatever narrative makes them happy when a neurodivergent person is trying to explain something to them that threatensvtheir entitled "superiority".

I felt very alone until I saw Greta Thunberg speak.

And I have less alone since thanks to the efforts of people like you.

Thank you ❤🌏💙

My name is Bob Baker by the way, I am camped near Armidale, Australia, trying to convert an agressively unwanted PhD into an "inverse school strike" - a novel instrument less restrictive than a flat Earth PhD.

My honours thesis title was "Developing an integrated renewable energy and water supply and carbon management system for Australia as an alternative to fossil fuelled systems".

A rough foundational effort I did in 2009, I could send a Dropbox link but I have done much more and extended the concept In many dimensions since then.

The first step is to get normal people to understand that we are all in this together- this is not his or her problem, it is everyone's problem and we can remain as part of the problem - or strive to do better.

Thanks again!

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