Meadows Reading
Donella H. Meadows, “Envisioning a Sustainable World,” International Society for Ecological Economics, 1994, pp. 1-6.
- Implementation is key to making change, but it is based on models
- Important other ingredients in the policy process
- Information
- Validate or prove model, as well as form, develop, and bring them to fruition
- Need good educations, media, data, etc
- Clear, feasible, socially shared goals
- People see a sustainable world as one with tight, centralized control, low standard of living, and no fun
- There is motivation in escaping doom, but more motivation in creating a better world
- Information
- The world shuns visionaries—have to be realistic, not push for what you really want
- Vision—allowing yourself to imagine your ideal world, not the one you’ll settle for
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