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> It’s that we’ve based everything off the Club of Rome style mindset of society

What is this supposed to be a reference to?




Possibly the "Limits to Growth" report (1972) by Meadows, et al. They used a simple model of resources, population, economy, pollution, etc. Some would say an over-simplified model. The report sparked a lot of controversy. I am not aware of significant changes to their World3 model that might be useful trying to integrate climate change models with economic-resource and population models.


I am very aware of what the Club of Rome is/was. I don't understand what the sentence means.


The last sentence said something about a computationally stable (model/state) of society. I suppose such stability would be helpful in looking for a sustainable economy or society. But I'm not clear either, on what that sentence means.


We keep trying to measure, calculate, forecast, then offset our world by building increasingly complex system to keep it “stable state” which we then errantly call “natural.”


What a fantastic one sentence summary of taoism and certain schools of anarchism.





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