I feel like this somehow may be a useful guiding metaphor for the next six months, as it will only be radical extremely creative solutions - things we never thought possible - which will avert the course we’re currently on:

In the 1970s, after a long series of experiments, White performed a transplant of one monkey head onto the body of another monkey, although it lasted just a few days. These operations were continued and perfected to the point where the transplanted head could have survived indefinitely on its new body, though the animals were in fact euthanized. The problem with this operation is that since no one currently knows how to repair nerve damage which would arise when the spinal cord is severed during the head transplant process, the recipient would become paralyzed from the neck down.

See also head transplant and whole-body transplant.

Research credit: JK