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A further comment while I think of it. At the end of the conference, MIT Professor Tom Malone asked the participants what they would like to be able to tell their grandchildren. I commented that I would like to be able to tell my grandchildren that I was part of a community who turned the world away from a path of catastrophe and on to a path of stability, sustainability and abundance.
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To reflect on the Climate Colab Conference, here is the feedback I provided to the MIT survey.

http://climatecolab.org/conference2015 - Conference Link

The overall process and concept of CoLab is excellent. The planning and delivery were excellent. Crowdsourcing of new ideas by internet is an extremely valuable innovation strategy, as a way to unearth ideas and people who face barriers to communication regarding new ideas. This is certainly the case for me. Despite a rather good public position working in Australia's Foreign Ministry on energy and resources, I find that my own ideas lack traction, primarily because I disagree with the dominant paradigm regarding carbon tax and emission reduction as the best way to stabilise the global climate, and instead see direct focus on new technology as an area that is somehow neglected.

So I think CoLab is helping to address a pathology in the policy process, opening a platform for fundamental debate on the theory of change and program logic regarding the climate crisis. What I think is a shame is that established scientists seem to think they are too high and mighty to condescend to engage in open dialogue with people like me who have differing perspectives.

Sure, there are some ideas at CoLab that are unrealistic, and people need to exercise caution in assessing proposals, but there is a good winnowing process through the CoLab judging system. I think where it falls down is the capacity to get traction with the established policy debate. There are massive hidden politics in climate policy. For example, my ideas align to the Bjorn Lomborg view, which is treated as anathema by the political left.

The challenge here is to enable a courteous and open dialogue about the real blockages preventing action on climate. I predict the Paris Conference will fail, and that will force a more open discussion and debate.

I really appreciated the opportunity to present my concept. That is the first time I have spoken about it in public since I get zero traction in Australia. Having the recording on the internet is a superb resource, even though my presentation is rather stilted and my video reflects my amateur capacity and the fact I have received no help from anyone. Having an Engineering Professor say in public that my ideas are compelling was a great validation. I was disappointed at the lack of interest in following up.

MIT is a superb frontier pioneering convenor with underutilised power to achieve global change.

We can tell our grandchildren we are part of a community that is turning the world from a path of catastrophe to a path of stable abundance.

The psychological challenges of enabling serious discussion on climate remain immense, and need fundamental philosophical work to uncover barriers and solve big problems.

While my expectations were met, my hopes were not, since I did not find enough people interested to take time to speak with me. I hope that we can follow up and I welcome MIT initiatives in this regard. However that lack of immediate traction did not surprise me since my ideas can be difficult and confronting. However I hope I will be able to give CoLab a lot of credit in a few years when my ideas are commercialised on large scale. I thought Sun Saluter was a very worthy winner, given its focus, relevance, practicality and advanced status.
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Here is a two minute video I just made of balloons lifting a five kilogram weight.

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And lowering the weight (one minute)

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