David, The issue of getting people to have a new paradigm about development
and the destructive use of natural resources and indeed our planet is
central and has concerned me throughout my career. Since economic gain motivates
almost everybody, making people understand that mining the earth and its
resources is not in their long term interest and that sustainable adaptation to
changing conditions is. Jared Diamond believes that this sort of change can
come from the bottom up or top down or both (ref Collapse) Unfortunately we
have reached planetary thresholds that make finding solutions absolutely
critical and imperative.
I believe one of the most beneficial uses of applied complexity is to
determine what makes societies succeed sustainably and what makes them collapse.
This was a problem that perplexed me and my colleagues at the UN.
Perhaps "free energy" can assist (I must reread all the string on this
issue), but it seems to me that there is no free lunch in this universe.
Paul
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