This map demonstrates my thoughts the multi-scalar approach necessary to achieve a sustainable world. It starts at the societal, community-based level featuring the key actors on this scale- individuals, community leaders, and business owners- then shows the actions those people need to take to fulfill their values of sustainability, then the consequential outcomes of those actions. Then moving to the government level, the format is the same, but with different actors- politicians, lobbying groups, and the EPA. And finally, the last road before reaching a sustainable world leads to the global scale, in which the key actors are international organizations, developed countries, and developing countries.

Along the way, we will stop at three roadblocks that hinder our progress. The first roadblock relates to the misrepresentation- or lack of any representation of poor communities and communities of color in politics. A power disconnect occurs here because the representatives are oblivious to the externality that poor communities are often located in the most industrial areas of a region (since those areas command the lowest rent value), making those residents the most affected by green policy. The second refers to the power of corporations. To put it simply, corporations have far too strong of a foothold in US government, and since green policy would be costly to most corporations, they refuse it adamantly, providing a massive deterrent against the sustainable transition within the government. The third roadblock is about cooperation of nations in international agreements. Because developed countries tend to be the most industrialized and admit the greatest harm to our environment, it makes sense that they are asked to make more changes towards sustainable regulations. Coupled with that there is an externality since the countries with the worst economies can offer the lowest wages, there is a race-to-the-bottom for standards of quality and cost, meaning that developing countries see the effects of climate change much more clearly. And on top of all of that, there is a disconnect because it would be unreasonable to ask developing countries to enforce costly regulations that developed countries did not have to implement to get on their feet. Meaning that often developed countries have to carry the brunt of the changes, and there is this false psychological phenomenon that they are being cheated, which encourages many leaders (example being Donald Trump) to pull out of climate agreements or fail to ratify them.