Unified Republican Control (2028)
Part IV examines how the anti-ESG ecosystem processes a visible climate shock under four distinct political configurations. These chapters do not ask whether politics…
Climate Shock without Visibility
This chapter constructs a scenario, not a forecast. It examines a plausible system response to climate change under specific, explicitly stated conditions. It does not…
Institutional Hardening
Part III establishes the baseline against which all subsequent scenarios are evaluated. It does not yet introduce political change or alternative governance pathways. Instead,…
Hallucinations Are a Trivial Issue
An impossible object, built from sentences. Every joint is locally correct. The figure cannot exist. Drawn in code by Claude (Anthropic) at my…
What We Are Holding Constant
This chapter defines the methodological constants that structure the remainder of this book. These constants are not empirical claims offered for validation, nor normative…