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Donella Meadows, one of the authors of Limits to Growth.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Leverage points are points of power.
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
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.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
Donella Meadowsdonellameadows.orgThe world is full of nonlinearities.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Asked by the Club of Rome to show how major global problems — poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, resource depletion, urban deterioration, unemployment — are related and how they might be solved, Forrester made a computer model and came out with a clear leverage point1: Growth.
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project
Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!”