Think for yourself to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2. – Ray Dalio
The preceding article in this series – Solving the Problem of Global Warming – showed that a solution for global warming might look like groups of decision-makers (throughout the whole of human society) swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy.
What might a group of decision-makers swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy look like?
A group of decision-makers swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy might look like you asking yourself these two questions:
First, you might consider asking yourself, “What do I want?”
If you want to reverse global warming, your answer to that question might look like, “I want a group of decision-makers to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy.”
Second, once you are clear on what you want, you might consider asking yourself, “How do I get what I want?”
If your answer to the first question looks like, “I want a group of decision-makers to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy,” then your answer to the second question might look like:
“I engage decision-makers in conversation, invite them to consider asking themselves, ‘What do we want?’ and – once they are in consensus on what they want — invite them to consider asking themselves, ‘How do we get what we want?’”
If decision-makers’ consensus answer to the first question looks like:
“We want to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy,”
decision-makers’ consensus answer to the second question might look like:
“We want to create a decision-making process for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy.”
The power in these questions is this: Until a group of decision-makers is in consensus on what they want, they are not going to be in consensus on how to get what they want.
Before a group of decision-makers can take effective action to get what they want, they first must come into consensus on what they want.
If you want a group of decision-makers to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy, you might want to engage them in conversation for as long as it takes until they come into consensus that they want to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy.
Once decision-makers are in consensus on what they want, they focus their skills, energies and enthusiasm on how to get what they want – a decision-making process for swiftly achieving 100% renewable energy – and getting what they want becomes inevitable
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Hawaii Story: In 2008, decision-makers at the electric utility serving the island of Kauai (Kauai Island Utility Cooperative) came into consensus on a goal of 50% renewable energy by 2023. As of 2018, decision-makers at the utility had achieved 43.5% renewable energy, and were on track to achieve 56% renewable energy by the end of 2019.
In 2016, decision-makers at the Kauai utility came into consensus on a new goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030. As of 2018, decision-makers at the utility were on track to achieve 66% renewable energy by the end of 2021.
Decision-makers at the Kauai utility are well on their way to achieving their renewable energy goals because of their ability to make consensus decisions among a group of decision-makers numbering no more than about 25 people.
They are well on their way to achieving their renewable energy goals because – once they came into consensus on what they want (their renewable energy goals) – they focused their skills, energies and enthusiasm on how to get what they want.
Once they were in consensus on what they want, they started making consensus decisions to swiftly adopt renewable energy options and swiftly achieve their renewable energy goals.
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In summary:
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Wondering what a group of decision-makers wanting to swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy might look like?
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Got questions about how you can swiftly achieve 100% renewable energy? About how you can reverse global warming? If you do, I hope that you will send me a message at extraordinary@erikkvam.com. I’m here to serve you.
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In the next article in this Reversing Global Warming series, I’ll show you what a landing-a-man-on-the-moon goal for achieving 100% renewable energy might look like.
Thank you for reading this article. I’m grateful for your comments.
