Systems Thinking: How to Dance with Chaos and Build Hope in a Changing World

As I mentioned earlier, that intensive farming can push land past its ability to recover. After the invention of tractors. Previously, uncultivated land across America it was quickly over farmed and destabilized leading to the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Meanwhile, the stock market crashed in 1929 in some part due to job displacement by technology and leveraged over speculation in these technologies triggering bank.

As things started to fall apart, 

pushing banks past their resilience points and triggering bank failures across the country, which all added up to a decade of the greater depression. If you're interested, the cover ask of this episode is from the American Dust Bowl because it's such a striking representation of the convergence between different systems in technology, economics, and nature, having amplifying effects on each other to create what became the worst economic disaster of American history.

I've already, I've already mentioned that intensive farming can push land past its ability to recover well. After the invention of tractors, after the invention of the automobile and tractors land across America was quickly destabilized.

Land across America was intensively farmed and quickly destabilized and lost its resilience to drought, leading to the

leading, leading to the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Meanwhile.

Leading, leading to the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s where, where over 100 million,

where over 100 million acres of land became, became a giant wasteland spreading over five different states of America. Meanwhile. Meanwhile, the stock market crashed in 1929 in some part due to the job displacement by technology, and of course, leveraged over speculation, pushing banks past their resilience points, which triggered bank failures across the country

of, of course, there were other systems at play across the, of course, there were other systems at. Of course there were other systems at play across the entire world. But,

but the Great de but the Great Depression of America that lasted an entire decade is a striking representation of the convergence of the convergence between different systems in technology, economics, and nature. Having. In technology, economics, global politics and nature, having amplifying effects on each other to create, to create what was, to create what became the worst economic disaster of American history to create what became the worst economic disaster of American history.

If you've, if you've never heard of the American Dust Bowl, it's worth taking a look at a, it's worth looking at a photo because it does look like something out of Mad Max because it does look like something out of a sci-fi film like Mad Max or Dune

now, although it would've been scary at the time, it didn't last forever.

Although it, although it must have been scary and terrible, although it must have been scary at the time and very hard to live through, it didn't last forever.

The youngest dash is teasing his big sister Violet. Violet is rolling her eyes until one comment goes too far and his dad stumbles in late grumpy from work. Mom is busy stretching her arms across the table to keep the peace.

, now looking forwards from problems of today. Systems fool us as presenting themselves as a series of events. Daily news and ordinary conversation is full of specific events. A team wins a river, floods a business, booms.

These events are all outputs moment by moment from the black box of a system, 

an assassination, a terrible crash, a stunning victory. These can all hook our emotions, , even though we see many of them fill our screens repeatedly day by day, but they feel different enough to keep us fascinated whilst offering very little explanatory value behind them.

If you want to understand the news, you have to research far beyond a recent event. And it's accompanying simple explanation to understand the underlying structures that create these problems.

. Knowing that, of course, we can look at the problems of today a little differently, 

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I've already mentioned that intensive farming can push land past its ability to recover. 

After the invention, after the invention of tractors, land across America was over farmed and quickly destabilized and lost its resilience to drought, leading to the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, where over 100 million acres of land across five different states. Was turned into a wasteland. 

Meanwhile, the stock market crashed in 1929 in some part due to the job displacement by technology and leveraged over speculation, pushing banks past their resilience points, triggering bank failures across the country.

Of course many other systems were at play in the wider global economy, but the decade long, great American Depression is a striking representation of the convergence between different systems in technology, economics, global politics and nature, all having amplifying effects on each other to create what became the worst economic disaster of American history. And if you've never seen photos of the American Dust Bowl, I would recommend you take a look at them.

Because it looks like something out of a sci-fi novel, like Mad Max or Dune.

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