Posts tagged systems thinking
How to celebrate the 50th birthday of...
The 8th March 2016 is an important day for everyone concerned about resource consumption and waste issues, including climate change. It’s the 50th anniversary of the solution to these problems being offered by Kenneth Boulding. Boulding’s poetic vision of a future ‘spaceman economy’ on a ‘spaceship Earth’ more than encompassed today’s vision [...]
Why don’t climate summits work?
Everyone knows that decades of international climate summits haven’t worked. Greenhouse gas emissions, concentrations and impacts all rise as if no discussion or agreement had ever been attempted. Yet climate conference agendas never include the question “why isn’t this working?”. Are big climate events doomed to fail [...]
Fifth Policy Switch: Including Guardi...
Can we all learn to get on with nature before nature learns to get on without us? Existing policies don’t fix our broken relations to nature.
6.1 This One’s Finished, Can We Have a New Planet Please?
A study involving more than 1,360 experts worldwide over four years warned of an “increasing likelihood of nonlinear changes in ecosyste [...]
Second Policy Switch: From Predetermi...
All global problems come back to habits of thinking and none can be solved without addressing how we learn. We can unlearn the herd-thinking that is leading us all over the cliff-edge.
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3.1 Escaping the Old Ideas
The remaining policy switches could enable p [...]
First Policy Switch: From a Strategy ...
How far wrong have we gone as a ‘civilisation’? About 180 degrees.
Time for a turn-around strategy!
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2.1 Less bad is not good enough
The default strategy during decades of persistent global problems has been incrementalism – planning for ‘less bad’. However, less [...]
Security Means Global Security
Today’s problems can’t be solved with the same habits of thought that cause them. Here is a way for the scale of our ambitions to match the scale of our problems.
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1.1 Security includes non-military threats
Security in the modern world means far more than [...]
Seven Policy Switches for Global Secu...
Together the switches define a practical strategy for global security; for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity.
Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Published as ‘advanced research’ by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Abstract
Everyone desires a secure life. Yet the secur [...]