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In such an interconnected world, where the capture processes that would best support
behaviors of one country, company, or individual the global ecosystem. A functioning global
had potentially high-impact effects on all others, cap and trade system was also established.
piecemeal attempts by one nation here, one Worldwide, the pressure to reduce waste and
small collective of environmental organizations increase efficiency in planet-friendly ways was
there, would not be enough to stave off a climate enormous. New globally coordinated systems
disaster — or, for that matter, to effectively for monitoring energy use capacity — including
address a host of other planetary-scale problems. smart grids and bottom-up pattern recognition
But highly coordinated worldwide strategies for technologies — were rolled out. These efforts
addressing such urgent issues just might. What produced real results: by 2022, new projections
was needed was systems thinking — and systems showed a significant slowing in the rise of
acting — on a global scale. atmospheric carbon levels.

International coordination started slowly, then Inspired by the success of this experiment in
accelerated faster than anyone had imagined. collective global action, large-scale coordinated
In 2015, a critical mass of middle income and initiatives intensified. Centralized global
developed countries with strong economic oversight and governance structures sprang
growth publicly committed to leveraging up, not just for energy use but also for disease
their resources against global-scale problems, and technology standards. Such systems
beginning with climate change. Together, their and structures required far greater levels of
governments hashed out plans for monitoring transparency, which in turn required more
and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tech-enabled data collection, processing, and
the short term and improving the absorptive feedback. Enormous, benign “sousveillance”
capacity of the natural environment over the systems allowed citizens to access data — all
long term. In 2017, an international agreement publically available — in real time and react. Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
was reached on carbon sequestration (by then, Nation-states lost some of their power and
most multinational corporations had a chief importance as global architecture strengthened
carbon officer) and intellectual and financial and regional governance structures emerged.
resources were pooled to build out carbon International oversight entities like the UN

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