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Karen L. Higgins
How to sustain our world for future generations has perplexed us for centuries. We have reached a crossroads: we may choose the rocky path of responsibility or continue on the paved road of excess that promises hardship for our progeny. Independent e
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Chapter 5 compares happiness to the two faces of the Roman god Janus. One face looks toward instant satisfaction from material consumption and the other seeks long-term well-being. By including this second face of happiness, this chapter complements
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This chapter concludes the detailed discussion for levels of intervention. Actions in the three areas at this level propose policies and technologies that increase food and water, decrease pollution and clean up the environment, reduce energy consump
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Chapter 10 likens the implementation of actions in the eight areas of intervention to assembling a jigsaw puzzle: All actions must fit together and none can be omitted. It addresses two areas in the first of the three levels of intervention. Actions
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“Balance” is the keyword in Chapter 9. By comparing the tightrope over Niagara Gorge traversed by the Great Blondin in the 1850s to the tightrope we must walk to achieve sustainability, it illustrates why we must carefully consider any plan of ac
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Chapter 6 reveals a major flaw in our mental model. By discounting unprecedented growth of population and pollution, we are blind to their disruptive long-term effects. Data shows, that by 2040, nine billion people will be drawing on Earth’s limite
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This chapter describes the second level of intervention in which structural change will alter system behavior and help us achieve sustainability. Actions in three areas at this level increase the price of energy to recoup total costs, alter social po
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Chapter 3 translates the three sustainability-related beliefs from our mental model into a systems diagram – an integrated picture of growth and personal motivations. With its three loops and its arrows of influence, the diagram looks like an ant
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