There is no doubt that any managing of climate change to save our world will cause much privation, especially to that ever-growing percentage of our population who are variously classed as the poor, the underprivileged, or “the common people”. 

While steps such as planting more permanent forests, ploughing less arable land for food crops, minimising livestock, and more “Frankenscience” applied to food production will no doubt help to produce that “New Eden” of the future, it will, in the now, minimise job opportunities. AI advances will soon obviate the need for many of the “drones” of middle management, potentially boosting the underclass numbers exponentially. Much of the population could be indentured to the state in short order. 

We must wonder what percentage of the existing, and boosted numbers of the poor and future “newly-poor”, will be granted access through the Pearly Gates of that near-future “New Eden”. 

Whatever approach is adopted to healing our planet and our societies, it will need to be somewhat more socialistic and democratic than what is developing at present. 

Dennis Pennefather