11 July 2021: The climate is rapidly deteriorating before our very eyes. The debate on whether climate change is happening or not is a controversy of the past. With record heat waves, increasingly common extreme weather events, and a rising global temperature threatening ecosystems across the planet, it is now an obvious phenomena that climate change is here and is getting worse.
This article will explore why human collaboration is so fundamental to our survival - and why it is not a new phenomena for humanity. Additionally, we will explore briefly why cryptocurrencies could be a uniting force (and our best green energy alternative to traditional finance) to help humanity move forward and stop its own destruction at the hands of a changing climate.
Human Collaboration is How We Got This Far
To solve such a complex, globally involved issue, the world MUST collaborate together. For the first time in human history, human society has finally expanded to a global-encompassing level. Society has interconnected communications, a globally connected economy, and the means to utilize human cooperation on a brand new scale. To understand how a global society could collaborate, one simply just needs to look at the past.
Human beings, while possessing an unparalleled level of intelligence compared to any known species in the history of the planet, on our own we are extremely vulnerable. The strength and resilience of humanity has always been found in our ability to work together. Without this ability, we would not have the technologies, the knowledge, the cities, and advancements that we all know today.
So, we possess the ability to work together and now, for the first time, that ability stretches beyond local groups and to the entire world. The first villages, and eventually city-states, were established through a new advancement in human collaboration. Evolving from hunter - gatherers, early humans eventually began farming the land, which led an expansion in the complexity of our societies, leading to a new advancement in human collaboration.
This very opportunity is unfolding once again in today's modern world. With this new ability to connect and cooperate with the rest of the world, why haven't we done so yet? Or better yet, why haven't we managed to figure it out how fundamentally crucial it is to our future? Most likely - we just haven't realized the accomplishment of human society reaching a global level yet - and instead have still been focused on our individual nations rather than attempting to unite the planet.
Realizing We are Now a Single Global Society
It has taken us time to even fathom how interconnected our societies have become in today's age. For our entire history, there was always a separating barrier between societies around the globe. However, in today's world, you could easily figure out what is going on in any part of the world effortlessly through our new communication channels such as social media. This was a mere fantasy even 50 years ago.
Once the planet wakes up to this realization, a global economic and financial system will be the stepping stone to newfound, united collaboration on major issues. Lucky for us, that system already exists - cryptocurrencies. Through the established use of cryptocurrencies, it could provide the global financial network necessary to tackling a world wide problem like climate change. Through such a system, funds can be raised to combat different elements of climate change around the world. It could be set up as a means of communication, providing the grounds for informative platforms such as Publish0x. Furthermore, it could be utilized to de-fund damaging practices currently being orchestrated by dominant institutions around the world today.
Perhaps most importantly, cryptocurrencies would provide the means for global economic equality & opportunity that, for the first time, will bring our entire species together under one united planet - a fundamentally crucial step towards the elimination of such a catastrophic threat as climate change while also allowing us to expand our society past its current state.
As our society continues to grow and require more energy, it is imperative that those energy sources be suitable for the planet. With cryptocurrencies, it would establish a far greener financial system than what currently exists in traditional banking. Bitcoin, for example, is said to now operate on over 50% renewable energy resources, making it one of the greenest institutions currently on the planet - even surpassing that of every nation of Earth.
Humanity's Place on the Kardeshev Scale
When considering how advanced a civilization is, the Kardeshev Scale, a "concept for measuring the evolutionary state of a civilization in terms of its capability to use energy", humanity falls into a Type 0 civilization. Civilization classifications range from Type 0 up to Type 5 in terms of energy capabilities. Specifically for humanity, we have a score of 0.73, meaning we are approaching a Type 1 civilization - one that has the capability of harnessing all the available energy on the planet.
Kurzgesagt - Kardeshev Scale
With our rapidly expanding population combined with our demand for higher energy due to advancing technology, massive innovations in our current institutions is not only necessary, it is pivotal to the survival and advancement of our species. Cryptocurrencies are the first revolutionary technological innovation with the capability of completely replacing our traditional financial system with a greener, more inclusive alternative.
Summary
It is important to note the history of our species in terms of past collaboration. Without it, our society today would not even be possible. We rely on one another. That has reigned true for thousands of years. Now, with an ever-growing energy hungry global civilization, we rely on each other more than ever on an unprecedented scale for humanity. We have reached the level of global civilization - a status that is threatened by the very advancements that got us this far.
To stop climate change and advance our species forward, we have to unite as one species around the globe. The introduction and rise of cryptocurrencies give humanity a new alternative to our traditional financial models. Through cryptocurrencies, we can build a more inclusive, collaborative, energy-efficient financial system that will allow our species to not only prevent the worst of climate change, but reach a Type 1 civilization and allow us to focus on the next expansive goal - going from a planetary species to inter-planetary.
