{"id":65383,"date":"2023-06-01T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65383"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:28:22","slug":"65383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65383","title":{"rendered":"Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Mountains as seen from\u00a0Tennessee Welcome Center<\/a><\/div>\n
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I have brought up\u00a0feedback loops (both\u00a0positive<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0negative<\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0many times in this space. I’ve also brought up unsustainable systems in one way or another in practically every article, since they are endemic in human society and at the root of every predicament. It would be very simple for me to tell you that if we just eliminated every unsustainable system and replaced them with sustainable ones that most all our troubles would be resolved. Aaahhh, if only it were that simple. While there is much truth to that statement, the physical realities of replacing these systems would be a massive transformation that is prevented by the Limits to Growth – not enough energy and resources to accomplish the job due to self-reinforcing positive feedback loops which would only add fuel to the fire of the existing ecological overshoot that we are\u00a0already in.\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Understanding how we got to this point is key in comprehending why
\noptions on dealing with overshoot are so limited. Several different ideas revolve around the same concept of creating a “new civilization” that humans could embark on to reduce overshoot and live happily ever after. I’ve pointed out one concept known as\u00a0The Venus Project<\/a>\u00a0which is really nothing more than\u00a0pure hopium<\/a>. I’ve spent the last several articles detailing the\u00a0Degrowth Movement<\/a>\u00a0and why degrowth in and of itself isn’t enough to actually accomplish much, mainly due to a lack of acceptance from corporations and governments, which would suffer greatly as a result. Of course, we’re all going to suffer from the implications of overshoot anyway, which makes that fact more or less irrelevant in the first place. I’ve pointed out why the\u00a0MEER concept<\/a> is unrealistic and more fantasy than reality…<\/p>\n

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Feedback Loops and Unsustainable Systems Mountains as seen from\u00a0Tennessee Welcome Center I have brought up\u00a0feedback loops (both\u00a0positive\u00a0and\u00a0negative)\u00a0many times in this space. I’ve also brought up unsustainable systems in one way or another in practically every article, since they are endemic in human society and at the root of every predicament. It would be very simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[138,139,153,154,203,22093,31189,11048,4902,33835,769,786,33834],"class_list":["post-65383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-civilisation","tag-civilization","tag-complex-systems","tag-complexity","tag-degrowth","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-erik-michaels","tag-feedback-loops","tag-hopium","tag-meer","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-unsustainable-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65385,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65383\/revisions\/65385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}