How to Apply Learnings from Japanese Bullet Train Thinking to "Act Fast" in Climate Crisis
To understand the story behind Japanese Bullet Train thinking, we need to go back to 1958 when Japanese Government ordered their Japanese Railways (JR) to come up with a quickest way to travel between Tokyo and Osaka. JR Engineers took this as a challenge and came up with a proposal a few months later with a train that can travel up to 100 km/hour speed which could be fastest train at that time if it was approved. To their surprise, Japanese Government mentioned to their JR engineers, we need a train twice as fast as your proposal. Shocked with the response from the Japanese Government with the speeds of 200 km/hour which could only be imagined in sci-fi movies, JR engineers undertook an impossible project and lifetime mission as the Government said they can spend how much ever money needed to make this a reality. The engineers understood that to reach unimaginable speeds of 200 km/hour ambitious future train, a completely different way of thinking and systemic changes are require...