The World We Want: The Big Picture |
Tuesday May 06 2008
Many of us have been anticipating the day of reckoning for our reckless human ways for decades. That day has arrived. Peak oil, climate chaos, financial collapse, and spreading social disintegration are all consequences of deep cultural and institutional dysfunction. The imperative to address them presents us with an epic test of our human intelligence and creativity. When I was a student in business school my professors always told us "Go for the Big Picture. If you find a problem, don’t just treat the symptoms. Look up stream to find and deal with the cause." The big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother Earth becomes crystal clear once we step back and take a look upstream. This big picture has three critical elements.
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Written by eldering at The Great Turning
Tagged with: consumption environmental_collapse growth production
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