The Global Functional Redundancy Mandate: Ecosystem Complexity as Primary Utility

By 2035, global economic modeling shifted fundamentally due to physical constraints imposed by climate change and systemic environmental degradation. As technological interventions—such as large-scale carbon scrubbing or geoengineering efforts—are shown to possess diminishing returns in maintaining planetary equilibrium, the operational stability of civilization becomes demonstrably reliant on natural processes. The Global Functional Redundancy Mandate (GFRM) describes the unavoidable economic and infrastructural shift wherein ecological complexity is formalized and priced as a foundational physical utility. This mandate dictates that the primary metric for system viability moves from maximizing energy throughput or optimizing single resource extraction to preserving the inherent, non-substitutable functional overlap within intact biomes.