Author: Hari
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sustain-ability & systems science
I have been thinking over “what sustainability means” for a while now. I suspect that there is no universal definition for the term. Let’s try to examine it from first principles, then. We might break up the word into “sustain-ability” – the ability of a system of interest – whether a local community, a corporation,…
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exploring the limits to growth
In 1972, a group of top scientists from MIT published a ground-breaking book called The Limits to Growth. The researchers, lead by Dennis Meadows, applied the newly created field of systems dynamics to explore what they called the world problematique – the complex of problems affecting the globe including poverty and inequity, environmental degradation, institutional…