Systems – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05:10:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Chicken Little, Cassandra, and the Real Wolf — By Donella H. Meadows | Whole Earth Catalog https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/02/chicken-little-cassandra-and-the-real-wolf-by-donella-meadows-whole-earth-catalog Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:20:45 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=22590 Unknown

 

“There are real wolves out there. I happen to believe my computer model when it says that the End-Of-The-World-As-We-Know-It is not only a possibility, but a high probability. As the Chinese proverb says, “If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are headed.” I think we are headed for disaster. But that thought does not thrill me. And it does not panic me into trying to fashion a world so controlled that it is actually predictable. Rather it energizes me to work toward a vision of a World-That-Works-For-Everyone, including all the nonhuman Everyones, a world in which eight billion people (or preferably fewer) maintain a European standard of living in a way that does not undermine the resource base, a world that evolves and learns and dances and operates from generosity and joy.”

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