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  We talked with him about how that surplus might be directed at tackling global environmental degradation. Shirky focused on the need for new legal and social structures -- working through online media -- to enable collective action.

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  • It's a collective-action problem. The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is … what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
  • Now we need to turn around and do X out in the world. I don't think that there's anything digital that we could do that would solve this gap. I think the gap is produced by the difficulty of translating thought into action. I think the kind of things that help people turn thoughts into action are much more about social and legal structures.
  • The way I'm asking myself the question is: who is the current Richard Stallman [founder of the Free Software Foundation] …  Is there someone working on the problem of translating thought into action in a way that all members of the group can agree on? This is the incredible thing about Linux. Even when individual coders find decisions not to their liking, it's still better to stick around with Linux as it is. The legitimacy that Linux has acquired has kept the group together.
  • It will come down to community solutions, homegrown vegetables and industries returning to the cities as globalization begins to reverse itself in face of the rising price of maintaining long distance networked relationships. It will be individuals and small groups who offer the best opportunities for avoiding catastrophe if indeed it can be avoided given the current momentum.

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