Humans have become the most powerful
are quite good at achieving our objectives.
Automation, industry.
We’ll pursue it with ferocity.
But we’re not as good at knowing what we don’t know. We may recognise that there are costs outside of what we can measure, but it’s not a good enough reason for the market.
Making things measurable is how we expand the scope of what we’re good at, so we can complete things like reforestation with the same efficiency as deforestation.
What saved the world in The Ministry of the Future was being able to measure carbon sequestration at scale, which enabled carbon coin, which was exchangeable for money.
All of a sudden, it could be someone’s full time job to regrow a forest, and they get paid for it. This is just what we need.