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(Photo by   Vladimir Fedotov   on   Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . Notice how the movie makers regularly come up with scary systems, or A.I. that will someday, somehow control human society?   HAL   from   2001: A Space Odyssey   did it.   The Matrix,   and   Skynet   from   Terminator   also took over humanity.   Why are we allowing such a thing to happen, even if it is only in movies?   It is because the   They   figure we are mostly chumps, and consider the great bulk of Americans a democratic   mob . . Not sci-fi or screen writers necessarily, but the way our political system always ends up getting more convoluted, and self damaging. The   They   is a nebulous entity   We The People   originally formed, and now have little real control over. While politicians and the wealthy have much of the power, even their control is limited. The   They   slowly tie up...

Essay first published on Medium . My goal would be to create something self contained, politically impenetrable , and separate from the current edifice rather than restructuring it. Speeding up reform is near impossible if we only use the political set up we have now. And, human-caused climate change is an existentially urgent pusher of the need for speed. . Holding down the high temperature average on our planet to “only” a 1.5 degree celsius rise, requires a worldwide 98% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2040. To get anywhere near that is impossible with the political and corporate powered process we currently have. . Yes, a 2.0 degree average rise is much worse: 37% of the world’s population is subject to severe heatwaves, about every five years; with a 1.5 degree rise, about a third less, or 14% are subject to those severe heatwaves. *And multiple other global warming influenced calamities throughout those years. . For citizens of the world to push back enough to make a substantial ...