REALITY CHECK: Normal no longer exists Human activities have caused significant damage to the Earth's environment and climate. What we realise now is that we have undermined our planet's life support systems. The ones we are dependent on to survive. The unsustainable use of resources, such as fossil fuels and intensive agriculture, is putting […]
Why should I care about Systems Thinking? How to find solutions to the status quo - we are in a polycrisis The global polycrisis has occurred because crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity's prospects. Fritjof Capra emphasises that advanced "...systems thinking will be critical in order […]
FRITJOF CAPRA'S The Systems View of Life In order to understand Systems Thinking, we need to put it into the context of a larger whole. It is 'contextual', the opposite of 'analytical, which means taking something apart in order to understand it. Fritjof Capra, the physicist primarily associated with establishing Systems Thinking theory. emphasises […]
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