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Strategies for Personal and
Organizational Success in a
World that has Limits to Growth
Dennis Meadows
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Exercise about habits
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Main Ideas for this Session
• In 1972 there were two future paths for global
society - overshoot and sustainable
development.
• Sustainable Development requires the strategy
of adaptation
• Our efforts to adapt have changed into strategies
that fail.
• Thus we are still following the overshoot path.
• We must change our focus in three ways.
• Quit only talking and start taking action
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World3: Overshoot Path World3: Sustainable Development Path
Two possible futures from our 1972 study
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Brundtland Commission Definition
Sustainable Development is: development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs
Our Common Future, Report of the World Commission on Environment
And Development, United Nations, 11 December 1987
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The common assumptions about
sustainable development
• The rich can keep what they have (preferably
get even more)
• while the poor rise to the standards of the rich
• this will be achieved simply by adapting our
current system (markets and politics)
• by developing new technologies that
‘decouple’ GDP growth in the use of energy
and materials.
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Adaptation
Actual
Health
Perceived
Health
Desired
Health
Difference
Action
Problem
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Delays in Adaptation
Actual
Health
Perceived
Health
Desired
Health
Difference
Action
Problem
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Addiction
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History of US Debt
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Acceptance
Actual
Health
Perceived
Health
Desired
Health
Difference
Action
Problem
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World Population
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Global society is following the
overshoot scenario
Overshoot Path Sustainable Dev. Path Historical Data
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Natural Disasters
Reported 1900 - 2010
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Exercise on Secret Code
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Meadows Definition of
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development is: development that
prepares the present system to deal with shocks
and chaos in ways that minimally compromise
the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs
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Increase Resilience Even if you
Have to Reduce Efficiency
Resilience is the ability to continue providing essential functions after receiving a shock:
- food, transport, health care, warmth,
- profit, market share, employment, reputation, dedication
Efficiency is the amount of output you get from a unit of input:
- km/liter, € output/hour of labor, hours of warmth/BTU of energy used, kg of food/kilo of fertilizer
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System: person,home, farm,
firm, city, nation
Essential Inputs Essential Outputs
Money, energy, access to
the internet, information,
clean water, raw materials,
manufactured parts, labor,
income
wastes, reputation
information, products,
payments
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Efficiency
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Focus on Universal Problems
• Global problems affect everyone (climate change,
spread of nuclear weapons, epidemics, etc.).
Solving them requires everyone to agree and act.
Costs here and now give benefits there and later.
• Universal problems affect everyone (city air
pollution, soil erosion, flooding, etc.). Solving
them requires only a small group to agree and
act. Costs here and now give benefits here and
soon.
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Forget Simple Solutions
Social & Cultural Factors Technical Factors
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Look Far Ahead in Time
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Easy Problems
Now Future
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Next Evaluation
Action #1
Actual Desired
Action #2
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Hard Problems
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Next Evaluation
Action #1
Action #2
Actual
Desired
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Personal Strategies• Remember that everyone makes mistakes in
predicting the future.
• Accept that you cannot solve the whole problem.
• Your moral obligation is to do your share.
• Reduce your boundaries of action until you can see the results of your actions.
• Create personal space away from global problems.
• Design resilience into your life style.
• Value your friends.
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University Strategies• Remember that some of the data we teach is wrong
now and much will become obsolete soon.
• The goal of teaching is not to give information but to teach skills.
– Interaction with real world problems,
• Teach about paradigms
• Students’ ethics are an appropriate and important topic for classrooms.
• Expand the boundaries of professional responsibility.
• Teach about resilience: measuring, increasing
• Recognize that lifelong friendships are one of the most important products of university life
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Exercise about Action