Sublime

Self-organization produces heterogeneity and unpredictability.

Once we see the relationship between structure and behavior, we can begin to understand how systems work,

“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.

Donella Meadows, one of the authors of Limits to Growth.

If company managers, city governments, the human population do not choose and enforce their own limits to keep growth within the capacity of the supporting environment, then the environment will choose and enforce limits.

There are always limits to resilience.