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7 public concepts

This index is navigation only; assess each concept and its sources before use.

1. Material base — Identify resources, inventory, throughput, and missing measurements.
2. Energy capacity — Identify energy supply, demand, losses, and unmeasured constraints.
3. Transport and latency — Examine routes, timing, access, and bottlenecks.
4. Habitat and ecological boundary — Identify affected species, habitat connectivity, migration, and reversible versus lasting effects before projecting a collective benefit.
5. Governance and consent — Identify decision authority, affected people, and consent boundaries.
6. Collaboration bounds — Examine coordination claims and the evidence needed to support them.
7. Falsification hooks — Name observations that could disconfirm a proposed benefit.

Diagnostic context only. Cite independent evidence for claims about the world.