This is the 9th What’s Next for Earth online exhibition based on Think Resilience,
a free online course by the Post Carbon Institute.
“In the previous nine videos we explored the interrelated crises of the twenty-first century. As we saw, these are not simple problems, and they can’t be solved with simple technical adjustments. They are systemic issues. Understanding and responding to them intelligently requires us to think systemically. Well, systems thinking emerged in science during the latter part of the twentieth century. Previously, it was often assumed that we could understand systems simply by analyzing their parts. However, it gradually became apparent—in practical fields from medicine to wildlife management to business management—that this often led to unintended consequences.”
– Richard Heinberg