The system within - Club of Rome

This kind of story sits deeper than any piece of literature or propaganda, deeper than our epic myths or religious texts. It operates at the level of world-shaping that Donella Meadows, one of the pioneers of systems thinking, articulated as the paradigm, which she described as: ‘The shared idea in the minds of society, the great big unstated assum

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It is abundantly clear that the more privileged people of the Earth must rapidly transform nearly every aspect of their lives if some form of viable species-civilization is to emerge: the energy we use, the levels and patterns of consumption we choose, the work we do and skills we develop, the homes and communities in which we live, the food we eat

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