Job One for Humanity

08/21/2026

Several weeks ago, I posted a white paper that got quite a positive reaction, but there was a complaint. It was so long. Could I do a summary for those of you who don't wanna read 50 pages? So here is that summary. It has a lot to do with the deeper reasons why climate change and so many other problems in the world never get solved. Here is the new article title and a bit about it.

We Know Better. Why Don’t We Do Better? Humanity's 10,000-Year Trap of the Hidden Repeating Patterns Causing Climate Change, War, Injustice, Collapse, and Today’s Global Crises.

Here is one of the strangest mysteries in human history: Why do intelligent people and entire societies repeatedly see serious problems coming, understand many of their causes, possess possible solutions, and still allow those problems to grow until they become disasters? This is particularly relevant for why we have not yet solved climate change, but it also relates to war, injustice, and the other crises of today's polycrisis.

Why do governments ignore warnings they paid experts to produce? Why do companies sometimes make decisions that increase short-term profits while damaging the systems they depend upon? Why do people keep following leaders who tell comforting stories instead of unpleasant truths? And why can a civilization produce astonishing science and technology while remaining so bad at governing the consequences?

This matters to you because the same pattern now appears in the cost of living, political polarization, misinformation, climate change disruption, declining trust, fragile supply chains, artificial intelligence, inequality, resource depletion, and institutions that often seem strangely unable to correct obvious problems. For this summary article, see.

We Know Better. Why Don’t We Do Better? Humanity's 10,000-Year Trap of the Hidden Repeating Patterns Causing Climate Change, War, Injustice, Collapse, and Today’s Global Crises.

08/06/2026

About a year and a half ago, I said I was working on a research paper at the Universe Institute to understand why, after 10,000 years of the positive aspects of civilization, humanity is still so dysfunctional and unjust. I finally finished the white paper, and it is called:

The 10,000-Year Trap: The 20 Interacting Causal Forces Behind Recurring Human and Civilization-Level Dysfunctionality, Injustice, Catastrophe, and Collapse.

I spent so much time on this white paper because, personally, I also have always wondered why after:

a. 10,000 years of civilization,
b. over 50,000 religions having existed,
c. 50 major philosophies evolved,
d. all kinds of beginning to advanced educational systems were created, and
e. numerous political and economic systems have been tried,

humanity still keeps repeating the same 20 causal behaviors at the individual and civilization level (or both), which, because of the amplifying effects of modern technology, are rapidly bringing humanity ever closer to the possibility of widespread catastrophe, collapse, and even extinction.

I postulated that if I, and if humanity, do not know all of the real and accurate causes of why our human civilization continues to be so dysfunctional and unjust, such civilization-level dysfunction and injustice will not only continue but also will be greatly amplified by modern technology, including AI.

I hope you will get a chance to look at at least the paper's 20 causes and conclusion, and its 21 charts and illustrations, which will quickly take you to the core and often SURPRISING findings if you're a skimmer.

Here is the link to this new white paper: https://www.universeinstitute.org/the_10_000_year_trap_the_20_interacting_forces_that_keep_turning_human_cooperation_into_injustice_catastrophe_and_civilizational_collapse

I hope this information will benefit you individually on whatever projects or dreams you might be working on.

It has certainly opened my eyes to the scope, breadth, and depth of the challenges before us, individually and collectively, as humanity.

Best,

Lawrence Wollersheim

The 10,000-Year Trap: The 20 Interacting Causal Forces Behind Recurring Human and Civilization-Level Dysfunctionality, Injustice, Catastrophe, and Collapse.

08/01/2026

The Climate Bill Is Coming Due: How Climate Change Could Cost the World $235.5 Trillion Over the Next 30 Years!

This summer, you have seen another year of climate change-related record-breaking extreme weather at the local, state, national, and international levels. These climate change-related consequences and record-breaking events have real costs far greater than most people realize.

Our central scenario cost estimate is that climate change imposed approximately $4.67 trillion in total U.S. social and economic costs and $18.7 trillion in worldwide social and economic costs during 2016–2025. To put those costs in perspective, the total GDP of the world's richest country, the United States, is $32.5 trillion a year, and the world's current GDP is estimated at $126 trillion.

These climate change cost totals are much larger than insured losses or physical-disaster tallies because they include many more direct and indirect costs that are normally not found in other climate change cost reports. They also include estimated premature mortality and illness, lost labor and business output, food and water disruption, displacement, and other costs that ordinary climate disaster accounting omits.

In the full article attachment, you will find the full costs of climate change consequences for the United States and the world from 2016 to 2025. It is a transparent estimate of disaster damage, deaths and illness, lost work, crop losses, infrastructure failures, insurance stress, displacement, and many other cascading climate costs. It also includes projected cost charts for the next 30 years in five-year increments.

We created this article because average citizens and normal businesses have no real idea of the trillions of dollars in past and future climate change consequence costs they may soon be asked to bear through significantly higher taxes and potentially drastically reduced social services and business subsidies. See

The Climate Bill Is Coming Due: How Climate Change Could Cost the World $235.5 Trillion Over the Next 30 Years.

07/10/2026

Do You Have the "Right Stuff" Climate Change Attitude and Perspective?

While there's still much critical climate-change work to be done, at the Job One climate change think tank, we needed to define a candid and realistic "right stuff" climate-change attitude and perspective to combat the climate-doom or "it's already too late" attitudes many have adopted. The practical, honest, and realistic balance in this climate-change attitude and perspective may surprise you.

The following article will help you answer the question, Do you have the climate change 'right stuff' attitude and perspective? If you agree with most of what is in the introduction and the six sections of this article, you definitely have the "right stuff." See

Our Positive Anti-doom Anti-powerless Climate Change Attitude.

07/02/2026

The Critical Climate Change Meta-Pattern Most People Are Still Missing. It May Stun or Surprise You! Our climate think tank has warned for years that extreme weather consequences from climate change will expand dramatically from about 2026 through 2031–2035, and then move toward far faster increases in severity, frequency, and scale from about 2035 to 2050. It's no longer going to be a steady, slow climb in consequences, as in the past. But what does this new meta-pattern mean?

(Editor's note: With extreme heat, heat domes, wildfires, and other climate impacts intensifying around the world this summer, it was important to provide our readers with useful meta-context for what's happening.)

Are you already seeing this worldwide pattern of dramatically increasing extreme weather, yet not fully recognizing it for what it is?

Even many well-educated climate change individuals still do not realize that many of today’s record-breaking local, regional, national, and international "bad or extreme" weather events are not isolated once-every-hundred-years or once-every-thousand-years oddities. They are the glaring early warning signs of a new global climate meta-pattern that has shifted the consequences of climate change from slow growth to considerably faster growth.

For all the details on what this new climate change meta-pattern is, see the full article at

The Critical Climate Change Meta-Pattern Most People Are Still Missing. It May Stun or Surprise You!

06/25/2026

Here is the Positive Anti-doom Anti-powerless Climate Change Attitude of a Climate Change Think Tank. Its balance may surprise you.

While there's still critical work to be done, we needed to clarify our hopeful and realistic climate-change position at Job One to shake off the often misinterpreted climate-doom and "it's already too late" attitudes many individuals have adopted.

No matter what climate change facts you read on our website about the many steep challenges posed by accelerating climate change, always keep the following attitudinal framework in mind.

It will help you develop the essential "right stuff" and a "failure is not an option" attitude about humanity fixing climate change.

The few short paragraphs below should uplift your spirits.

Click the following link to read the carefully considered, positive, practical, and rational attitude toward climate change action of our staff and organization.

See https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/are_positive_anti_doom_anti_powerless_climate_change_attitude?fbclid=IwY2xjawSqRPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFzdEJGa0V3aW1LS2FlaXo0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjE7zSvGimkgVrpnA0PSFza85MC0rf1rabr4vIWwECkVVwBQ4eYSZgTKxGXu_aem_2qNoOJ83LRPCcKbJieagig
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06/12/2026

The following page contains what I have learned over the last 14 years about healing climate-change-related negative emotional states, stress, and shock.

This climate change anxiety page below is designed to help the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who regularly and legitimately experience any of the following emotions relating to our seemingly out-of-control climate change and global warming emergency and our current climate conditions, as described here.

Here are the most common emotional reactions to climate change today: climate grief, worry, sadness, anger, anxiety, fear, depression, doom or dread, resignation, apathy, and paralysis.

Until one acknowledges, manages, and heals any of the above climate or environment-related emotional states in a healthy way, one will likely continue to feel diminished, upset, or significantly disabled by those emotions. See

Feeling Upset About Climate Change or the Environment? Here is How to Heal That! Fast!

06/10/2026

I have been spending a lot more time at the Universe Institute working on polycrisis-related issues. It's not that the climate change emergency isn't already, in itself, a nightmare!

Climate change is not the only growing global crisis , with its own timeframes, risks, and threats, that will affect the planning and strategies of everyone trying to prepare for a very bumpy future.

After completing my updating work on the 15 polycrisis and its time frames, I personally realized that if I did not also quickly embrace a wiser new polycrisis preparation, adaptation, and migration strategy, even though I prepared separately for climate change, I might be caught completely off guard and unprepared for any of the other 15 global crises that could hit me significantly before the worst of climate change hits my loved ones and me.

The 15 rising crises of the global polycrisis in the linked article below will change many of the time frames and time ranges for different kinds of preparation, adaptation, resilience-building, or migration to meet challenges that are often different from climate change challenges.

So please take the time to read the rather long, new polycrisis page to understand and its timelines for how our preparation, adaptation, resilience-building, and migration strategies have to evolve to encompass the much broader range of accelerating polycrisis threats.

Once you have read the new polycrisis page linked below, then go to our new safest locations page.
(To see the safest locations page, you must be a Job One member and be logged in to the website, then just go to the members area, and then go to the Climate Migration & Relocation Info #1 section, where you will find the article as one of the nine articles in that area called: Best Polycrisis Safer Countries to Migrate to for a More Healthy, Secure, and Purposeful Life.

In closing, please keep making tax-deductible donations to keep Job One's uncensored and independent climate change analysis work going to our homepage at JobOneforHumanity.org

See this link for our new poly crisis article: https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/global_collapse_and_humanity_s_great_polycrisis

With gratitude and determination,

Lawrence Wollersheim
Executive Director
Job One for Humanity

What is the Climate Change-Driven Global Polycrisis? Can 15 Intensifying Global Crises Initiate Widespread Global Systems Collapse?

06/05/2026

There are only two things that every politician and every individual should understand about climate change. They are contained in a new article we just completed called, "The Climageddon Feedback Loop: Climate Change's and Humanity's Worst Nightmare."

It is loaded with verifiable science and a ton of illustrations and charts that take one of the most complex areas of climate change and make it so that almost anyone can understand what their future will look like if our politicians don't start radically reducing global fossil fuel burning and use.

It also contains a detailed action plan to get our politicians moving on this, as well as an action plan for your own adaptation and resilience-building. See

The Climageddon Feedback Loop, Climate Change's and Humanity's Worst Nightmare.

05/29/2026

Are We Already in Irreversible Global Warming? The Evidence, Risks, and What To Do Next.

Irreversible global warming means we are pushing the climate system into near-irreversible changes that will last for centuries to millennia, even if humanity gets serious at some later date and starts behaving like adults. Greenhouse gases have stored momentum. Oceans store heat. Ice sheets respond slowly. Climate change feedback loops intensify climate damage. While not every effect is permanent, many serious and escalating climate harms have already become irreversible for timescales far beyond human lifecycles. See

Are We Already in Irreversible Global Warming? The Evidence, Risks, and What To Do Next?