There Are No Separate Systems. The World

A Vision Should Be Judged By The Clarity Of Its Values, Not The Clarity Of Its Implementation Path [in Mediated Modeling Page 43]

The World Is A Complex, Interconnected, Finite, Ecological - Social - Psychological - Economic System. We Treat It As If It Were Not, As If It Were Divisible, Separable, Simple, And Infinite. Our Persistent, Intractable Global Problems Arise Directly From This Mismatch.

A System 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... The System, To A Large Extent, Causes Its Own Behavior.

I Call The Transformed World Toward Which We Can Move ‘sustainable,’ By Which I Mean A Great Deal More Than A World That Merely Sustains Itself Unchanged. I Mean A World That Evolves, As Life On Earth Has Evolved For Three Billion Years, Toward Ever Greater Diversity, Elegance, Beauty, Self-awareness, Interrelationship, And Spiritual Realization.

The First Commandment Of Economics Is: Grow. Grow Forever. Companies Get Bigger. National Economies Need To Swell By A Certain Percent Each Year. People Should Want More, Make More, Earn More, Spend More - Ever More. The First Commandment Of The Earth Is: Enough. Just So Much And No More. Just So Much Soil. Just So Much Water. Just So Much Sunshine. Everything Born Of The Earth Grows To Its Appropriate Size And Then Stops.