If you have the light, feel free to shine it:) But I'm not interested in clickbait rehash of all gloom & doom stuff out there. It's boring, leads nowhere. So for lack of smarter, I'm more than happy to settle for removing a brick at a time to unblock the view.

With this study, I've managed to overarch the growth-degrowth divide. One more topic we don't need to waste our time on. On to the next level. Being fan of Brundtland, I came up with this definition for human development:

“our ability to create and maintain high levels of future uncertainty“

In plain English, for example, if I burn fossil fuel today to fly on a holiday to Bali, there is nothing to show for it after the act. With it used up, (its energy converted into entropy) there are now fewer choices left to society and no future uncertainty was created.

Yet if I use that same fuel to let's say build and operate a quantum computer, it is useful today for my tasks at hand and I'd be creating a tremendous amount of uncertainty (compound impacts) for generations to come.

Uncertainty is a useful principle to help guide society to make wiser choices. Also removes dogmatism, as not all fossil fuel burning is bad, some perhaps even good and necessary. If you use more intelligent metrics.

Twain Liu 刘秋艳 disagrees with me. According to her, there is a higher order to look at the issue, bypassing the pitfalls of binary logic and dualism. She gave me some references to her arguments which I take seriously and will read. As Nikola Tesla said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Entanglement and simultaneousness were never part of my engineering curriculum, so clearly that will be the next brick I'll be looking at closely.

So to be continued, unless you've solved it of course. In that case, please don't forget to post me a link:)