| Description | The industrial revolution, based on linear models and deterministic science, has led to phenomenal advances in technology, economic development and the quality of life. This success has also resulted in wholesale biodiversity loss, environmental pollution on a planetary scale, climate change, poverty in the underdeveloped south and an extraordinary concentration of financial wealth. While linear science is good for technological development it is not adequate for understanding the complexity of living beings. We need new paradigms and ways of learning about ourselves and our relationship with the environment. This seminar will present some concepts from systems thinking that might help us to deal with the sustainability challenge we currently face.... |