The Aanimad Assertion on Climate Change proposes some unique and provocative conclusions, based on four leading statements:

1. Given that life is predicated on growth, biosustainability REQUIRES negative feedback.


2. Humans have leveraged the power of fossil fuels to neutralize nature's usual negative feedback mechanisms.


3. Humans have also adopted quantitative value systems that override the voluntary negative feedback concept of sufficiency.


4. In the relative absence of negative feedback, humans have adopted behaviours that lead directly to Ecological Overshoot.

The Aanimad Assertion on Climate Change itself states:

Climate Change is the result of (a) the burning of fossil fuels to bypass nature's unkind negative feedback, while (b) adopting value systems which have no concept of peak sufficiency.  The root cause of Climate Change (and other equally threatening components of Ecological Overshoot) is our current economic paradigm of More is ALWAYS Better.

Climate Change is also the most pressing (and increasingly visible) threat to our economic activity, and therefore constitutes nature's most powerful negative feedback mechanism to the economic values that caused it.

Climate Change is potentially the missing and required negative feedback to an unsustainable way of life for our species.

You can read the full Assertion here.  If correct, this assertion has profound consequences for how we should address Climate Change, and what else we should be doing.

source: Andrew Welch