Strategy Integration Begins

 

Ambassadors from all WICO members met in the headquarters Main Hall and officially signed their nations’ pledges to take required action to implement their individual strategies with any amendments that result from WICO’s strategy integration.

“This is a great and important day in the history of civilization,” Secretary General Decatur told the assembly at the beginning of the signing ceremony. “We unite to confront the greatest threat to our civilization and our species with the best ideas and tools ever available to humanity. Members have all submitted strategies that they judge as meeting their needs and the needs of us all, pursuant to the requirements of the Global Emergency declaration of January 3, 2019. The world thanks everyone involved for their heroic effort under almost impossible time constraints, and in advance for their preparations to implement the global strategy that will result from combining those strategies and be presented for approval by treaties no later than the first of March. The World Information and Coordination Organization promises timely guidance to expedite preparations for action, which will focus on areas of material conflict between dependent strategies, and on issues that would clearly reduce the efficacy of the global effort.”

Following the signing ceremony, WICO released a compendium of all national strategies for public review and comment during the strategy integration process. An appendix was included that summarizes the requirements and guidelines for a global strategy, along with regional projections of impact and responsibility under the business-as-usual scenario subject to the expected range of relevant natural feedbacks.

Reality Check

The procedural steps in developing local and global strategies is based on my best guesses and some fictional license (since this is an imaginary “world”).

A dedicated global effort would reasonably flesh out details at the granularity of “regions” which have similar and interdependent physical and social characteristics. I don’t have that information, but examples and critical relationships can be inferred from my simulations and some basic publicly available data.