Gesellschaftlich antizipierende Planung: Welche Nöte wie zu wenden?

The text serves as one of seven external contributions to the question, whether societal planning is a meaningful project. With reference to Ernst Bloch the function of plannning not only to anticipate future reality is stressed, but also to contribute to the realisation of preferred states of the future. Problem solving steps should be devised on the background of scenario options derived from technically and scientifically well-grounded analyses. Reference is made to Barry Commoner's 1990 investment plan of using the peace dividend for the ecological transformation of societal production. The plan was i.a. meant as a contribution to keep the climate crisis away at more reasonable costs than would be the case - and, indeed, is the case - lateron. Also, the anticipating power of Susan George's 'The debt boomeerang' of 1992 is highlighted to say that a common future with mitigated greenhouse problems demands better burden sharing between rich and poor strata of world society, proposed as a demand for 'Greenhouse development rights' (Baehr, Athanasiou, Kartha 2007).