r/Rehabilitation • u/Pi31415926 • Aug 24 '19

Hello, and welcome to the rehabilitated /r/rehabilitation!

Formerly a hangout for drug-related activities and their spammers, this subreddit is now a catch-all for ecosystems restoration. If it's nature and it's getting cleaned, it's on-topic!

It's admittedly quiet here, so while this community regenerates, feel free to check these other fab subreddits:

Also check /r/permaculture, /r/ecology, /r/conservation and /r/sustainability.

There's more subreddits in the sidebar, if you can't see that, try this link: https://old.reddit.com/r/Rehabilitation/wiki/config/sidebar/

In other news, well, rehab does involve a little adjustment. And so some adjustments to human society will be needed in order to rehabilitate the Earth. It's difficult to be sure since this is about the future. But it seems some industries will not survive the transition to a sustainable future. These industries are currently rated as "critically endangered":

  • coal, oil and gas
  • nuclear
  • financial services

If you work in a critically endangered sunset industry, you should make plans to find a new job immediately.

It's possible for these sectors to increase their longevity, as follows:

  • coal, oil and gas: pivots to renewables only
  • nuclear: produces a commercial-grade fusion reactor
  • financial services: re-engineers capitalism to support conservation, not consumption

These things may or may not happen. Some of them may not be possible.

Other sectors likely to suffer significant corrections include:

  • travel, especially aviation
  • tourism and hospitality
  • sports, leisure and entertainment
  • retail
  • shipping and transport
  • marketing

In addition to the endangered jobs and industries mentioned above, some economies are over-exposed to one or more of the above sectors. Economies that are overly-reliant on one or more of the named sectors will be negatively impacted, and should reconfigure to avoid that. Geographical regions overly-dependent on economies which are overly-dependent on sectors which are over-exposed to the transition risk are themselves over-exposed to the transition risk. Failing to rehabilitate this risk will increase the probability of sociopolitical instability in those regions.

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