Title | : | Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System |
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ISBN | : | - |
Language | : | English |
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Number of Pages | : | 21 |
Publication | : | First published January 1, 1999 |
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Reviews
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One of the most highly concentrated packages of insight I've ever read. It's a powerful framework for thinking about every aspect of ourselves and our world.
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I now want to read all of Donella Meadows' works!
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"Further investigation of self-organizing systems reveals that the divine creator, if there is one, did not have to produce evolutionary miracles. He, she, or it just had to write marvelously clever rules for self-organization."
"When you understand the power of system self-organization, you begin to understand why biologists worship biodiversity even more than economists worship technology." -
Profound, Practical, Poetic and, surprisingly jargon free! One of the best papers I have read. Donella does a *wonderful* job in the true sense of the word. Something to print out, keep on your desk, and go through at least once a month.
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If you can get through the jargon and can keep up with the jargon-based reasoning then you can see the potential for mastering these principles of leverage points. It is being able to wield power, for good or for bad. There is a lot here in not a lot of words. Worth reading many times and applying.
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I reread this this every year lol
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I read this essay as part of an amazing (and free) online course Foundations of Humane Technology:
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Vital reading to help us work through today's polycrisis - Economic, Nature, Social and Political. More needed today than when it was written in 1999.