Tom,
\nI guess the problem is that we\u2019ve been steering the development of the earth as if expanding our vehicle with our windows painted over with out of date explanations, having a party and not watching the earth\u2019s responses as we crashed into things. Our blind procedures, then, have not been doing what we intended them to do.<\/p>\n
I could be a lot more specific, but steering requires watching the thing you\u2019re steering through.\u00a0\u00a0 Old wives tales won\u2019t satisfy. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Basically, using science to try to turn nature into a machine, finding its rules so we can make it follow our rules\u2026 is a false objective,\u00a0 That\u2019s not the *intended* purpose of science, but a default purpose from allowing science to be co-opted for making money for \u00a0purposes science never examines.<\/p>\n
That that\u2019s been going on for the whole period of the development of modern science is a key to understanding the real dimensions of the problem. \u00a0\u00a0What individuals can do is begin to explore why continually increasing control of nature is a false objective, both infeasible and self-destructive.<\/p>\n
Making money to make more money, in particular, is a defective model for establishing partnerships with living things. \u00a0When you explore around the issue it appears to error is a combination of<\/p>\n
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- a) using models to represent complex living systems with simple rules, grossly misrepresenting them, and<\/li>\n
- b) then \u2018innocently\u2019 buying into the dream of using money to continually make more money, using the simple rules to plan on exploiting living systems till they fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Neither of those mental errors is easy to cure, but they are both information problems. That makes them potentially curable, except not by waiting to see what happens if we cling to them to the end\u2026\u00a0
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<\/p>\nDoes that connect with anything?<\/p>\n
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ed 2\/13\/12 see\u00a0Are the holes in your map helping you read the territory?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Post to LinkedIn\u2019s Global Foresight discussion 4\/11\/09 Tom, I guess the problem is that we\u2019ve been steering the development of the earth as if expanding our vehicle with our windows painted over with out of date explanations, having a party and not watching the earth\u2019s responses as we crashed into things. Our blind procedures, then, … Continue reading What can people do?\u2026 to fix our violation of nature<\/span>