Description: A project like the WWII war effort to mobilize the nation to get out of ecological overshoot
On day one, I’ll declare a national emergency and launch a national project to end overshoot:
We must shrink our economy and our population.
When the U.S. entered World War II, we were facing a national and global emergency. That warranted an effort of massive scale. We made a national project out of it. Everyone in the U.S. put their personal interests aside. We voluntarily rationed gasoline, rubber, butter, sugar and more; we repurposed our factories; we contributed scrap materials needed to manufacture airplanes and other equipment; we bought war bonds; we gave of ourselves in every way possible.