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Psychologically and politically we would much rather assume that the cause of a problem is “out there,” rather than “in here.” It’s almost irresistible to blame something or someone else, to shift responsibility away from ourselves, and to look for the control knob, the product, the pill, the technical fix that will make a problem go away.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, Western society has benefited from science, logic, and over intuition and holism.

2 as cited in: Stephen M Millett (2011) Managing the Future: A Guide to Forecasting and Strategic Planning. The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.

A is a set of things-people, cells, molecules, or whatever-interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.

Meadows (2008) Thinking in Systems: A Primer Thinking in systems: A Primer (2008) Diana Wright, Donella H. In: The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000. Ecological resilience and tipping points. Men, and scientists, The Limits to Growth was compiled by a team of experts from the U.S. Earthscan (United Kingdom and Commonwealth).

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

In: The CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer, pp. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite.

The is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic.

Meadows (1980) 'The unavoidable a priori' in: ed., Elements of the system dynamics method.can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

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