Elinor ostrom and reclaiming the commons

Handling the polycrisis

Some wisdom about how the crises could be resolved but not necessarily a good blueprint for how to solve the political details in order to move forward.

My working thesis is that it cannot be solved without serious disruption, looking to game theory.  Too many people have self interest in near term projects that create benefits for them but impose huge costs on the rest of the world.

the thinking that got us into our current mess, particularly but not solely climate climate change and environmental degradation, is inherently ill-suited to come up with remedies... 

What we are up against is not just neoliberalism. It is a highly complex society, with most occupying very specialized roles, combined with capitalism, which requires a large majority of people to sell their labor to survive. Oh, and worse, sell that labor in a competitive market. That generally means that trying to do things differently as a current or prospective employee is likely to result in not having a paycheck.

Individuals are typically subject to multiple sets of responsibilities, and they often conflict. The number of conflicts tends to increase as societies become more complex, starting with family/tribal, local communities, national, global. Humans have seldom been good at working out how to manage competing levels of responsibility. The tensions and contradictions get greater as societies become more complex.