{"id":22590,"date":"2016-02-22T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=22590"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:10:58","slug":"chicken-little-cassandra-and-the-real-wolf-by-donella-meadows-whole-earth-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/chicken-little-cassandra-and-the-real-wolf-by-donella-meadows-whole-earth-catalog","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Little, Cassandra, and the Real Wolf \u2014 By Donella H. Meadows | Whole Earth Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Unknown.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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, \u201cIf you don\u2019t change direction, you will end up where you are headed.\u201d 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholeearth.com\/issue\/2096\/article\/72\/chicken.little.cassandra.and.the.real.wolf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere 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, \u201cIf you don\u2019t change direction, you will end up where you are headed.\u201d I think we are headed for disaster. But that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2379],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43595,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions\/43595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}