“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein
In even attempting to enter discussion around global warming, we are immediately confronted with multiple contending arguments and perspectives. At the baseline, we can generally agree that global warming exists, presenting the actual existential threat to human civilization that terrorism is alleged to as an article of moral panic (Debney 2017a). From there, we are confronted with multiple challenges – first, to identify the root causes and, second, to find solutions that, in addressing the root causes of global warming, reflect the truism articulated by Albert Einstein that ‘we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them’. 1 To do otherwise would be to reproduce the destructive dynamics we oppose through inad-equate assessments of the root causes and the ine ff ective responses that derive from them, but which some find preferable perhaps due to their complicity with them. As a matter of characterization, trying to solve global warming with the thinking that created it is the best way to guarantee that the problem worsens, ever diminishing our chances of avoiding worst-case scenarios.