Sublime

“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.

Donella Meadows, théoricienne visionnaire des systèmes, l’un des principaux auteurs du rapport Halte à la croissance, paru en 1972.

Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

We are less likely to be surprised if we can see how events accumulate into dynamic patterns of behavior.

An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation.

The pioneer of systems thinking, Donella Meadows, offers this definition of the work in her essay Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System: So how do you change paradigms? In a nutshell, you keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm, you keep coming yourself, loudly and with assurance from the new one, and you insert p