Posts Tagged ‘limits’
Managing Complexity: A Simulation’s Insights into Climate Change
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 19th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Using the En-ROADS simulation tool to visualize our energy choices and understand their implications
Elizabeth Sawin
When we talk about climate change, we’re really talking about systems—a whole web of linked issues. We can’t really discuss the eroding health of our planet without bringing up the causes of that decline, such as habitat destruction and resource extraction. Mention of resource extraction brings [...]
What the Economic Crisis Really Means and What We Can Do About It
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 17th, 2012
By Theo Kitchener
We were told that the global financial crisis of 2008 happened because irresponsible borrowers couldn’t afford to pay back their loans. This is true, but it was also part of a much deeper problem. The issue is that our economic system is based on the need for continuous, perpetual growth. It’s highly likely that we’re already in the beginnings of [...]
Learning from the Past
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 2nd, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Looking Backwards to Move Forwards in a Year of Anniversaries
Happy anniversary to Silent Spring, The Limits to Growth, and other environmental milestones! (Image credit: lou.veyret via Flickr)
While making progress on social and environmental issues requires looking forward with vision and resolve, there’s also good reason to look backwards. This year marks the anniversary of a number of historical events important [...]
Last Call: A Documentary Film About The Limits to Growth
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: September 20th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
“There are physical limits to growth which, given current trends, are very likely to be encountered even within the lifetime of our children…The most likely outcome of running into these limits if we continue to ignore them is that we’ll overshoot those limits and collapse…Every year we delay decreases our ultimate options.” –Dennis Meadows, 1972
While this warning has been [...]
Banking, Oil, and Us–A Troubled Trio
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: September 6th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Reading the newspaper these days often feels like an onslaught of one crisis after another—storms causing severe flooding, droughts ruining crops and driving up food prices, wildfires destroying thousands of homes. In the midst of these immediate and dramatic stories, the global financial crisis of 2008 can feel like old news. But a new video animation by Doing It Ourselves [...]
