Fortunes will be made and lost in days, in repeated waves of such days. Normal SEC style regulations will be routinely bypassed We have learned a good deal about how to make large scale community conversations useful. Talking about scenarios is one of those ways. We really don't yet know. We see a tendency to gridlock in our organizations as people see that budget needs may require crossing boundaries to get the needed cash.
Planning stirs up issues around turf and budget.
Talking about Scenarios, that is, some plausible images of the future beyond what we know for sure, get people engaged with much less anxiety. Having looked at scenarios in cross organizational groups, we can then talk more fully about what we should do. We are in the middle of a very complex social process. Its a feast for those who are willing to think, and lots of antique knowledge turns out to be very useful. Here's a website which shows where all the environmental indicators are going, in particular resource depletion.