If command and control and financial incentives are not enough to turn the tide in the necessary timeframe, can renewable energy and new breakthrough technologies come to the rescue of humankind?
And even if the political will were there to achieve this level and speed of carbon reduction, the social change 1.0 tools at their disposal -- command and control, and financial incentives -- are not designed for this type of rapid, transformative change.
It is described by one banker as a "command-and-control cockpit", imposing some financial discipline on Dubai's government-backed champions.Dubai sorely lacked such oversight in the run-up to the crash.
Troop recruitment, training, and retention activities are underway and command substantial foreign financial and human resource investment [ 11].
However, other countries such as Afghanistan, whose aid from India has topped $2 billion, and Myanmar, which is set to get a further $500 million line of credit from the Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM), now also command extra financial and diplomatic attention.
Under the Bank's expanded remit, he will command two fields – monetary policy and financial supervision.
Such sales, which were common in the 1990s when European governments sold industrial and financial assets, usually command lower fees than private deals.
And it takes us down the path of command-and-control that I just referenced where consumers are worse off, have limited financial choice, and suffer unnecessary hardship.
Enron imploded because the company abandoned old-fashioned command-and-control in favour of fashionable ideas about running energy companies as if they were financial organisations.
Among them are military command and control systems, systems controlling financial networks and the transfer on money within the network, networks that control our electric power.
