Steve Hallett - Systems Quotes

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What farmers should aim for is... higher margins using fewer inputs on less land, and a system that is sustainable.

Steve Hallett

Decentralization will prevent shocks from spreading throughout the system, like firebreaks in the forest.

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Cellular systems, ecosystems, and civilizations are, at base, thermodynamic systems.... The system uses energy, eventually releasing it as useless heat.... there is one vital difference between natural systems and human systems: natural systems receive a fixed energy input that never varies. If we could set a strict limit on energy use, we could build a human system that is just as stable as an ecosystem.

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What I'm proposing... is for governments to peel back support for large businesses, especially extractive industries. Instead, governments should support small businesses.... inhibit oversized energy and agricultural systems and promote smaller, localized ones.

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Human systems always bring about their own demise... Natural systems... do not destroy themselves.

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Nothing can sustain a system that is in overshoot... Resiliance... is not the strength to hold back the tide, but the strength to bend without breading as the tide inevitably rushes in.

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