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what you will want

Pollution Solution Too Late

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How long do we have?

The question asked by many in ’08. The honest answer is the optimists broken glass. None. Even though we are not in the six month club, we have treated this problem, this planet as an economic problem for so many years, so many generations of consumers, that we may as well just let economics take it’s time. Let the dollar decree how many of your children live, and how well they live… It won’t matter now.

It’s all over baby green.

Put this another way. When someone tells you the market will create the solution, ask why the market hasn’t already created the solution. Isn’t the market mechanism, and it’s academic acolytes the mainline cause, rather than the cure?

Alignment

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Aligning 100 people perfectly, gains no more than what anyone of them would have been.–webionaire

I realized this while watching a group struggle toward, nope, stumble about in a team exercise for solution. The problems grew rather than shrank. Each person could, and did, pose another problem, another reason that would foil the answer, each and any answer proposed.

The solution that this group of new thinkers (all with advanced degrees, long stories and much experience) stumbled toward, kept sliding away. I left after the sixth hour. Went across the street to a coffee shop where I met the CEO having a tall one. We sat together and put together about fifteen options with pencil pricing in less than a half hour. With that, I left the meeting offsite. I hope he figured out how to let his team in on the answer they came up with.