Please follow me (23/12/2014)
Index
1. Introduction
2. The Systemic Vision
2.1. System Dynamics, an alternative scientific paradigm
Rapid dynamics, slow dynamics
Look at the forest and forget tree detail
The needed unity of sciences
Feedback sign
Properties that emerge
All is thermodynamics
2.2: Stability and Equilibrium
Stability and its threesholds
Overshoot and collapse
The key role of delays
Designing controllers, a bath of reality
2.3: About boundaries and sustainabilities
Important boundaries
Boundary, frontier, environment?
What type of economist are you?
‘Soft’ sustainability?
Mental and thermodynamic decoupling on a globe
3. Human perceptions of natural and economic systems
More and more perceptive limitations
Poor climate system
The unavoidable aid of mathematics
The map analogy
4: Application of system dynamics to the climate system
It’s still green
The carbon cycle, yes
Geoengineering, the last frontier
5. Application of system dynamics to the social sciences
Historical cycles
Masters of the world
The determinism question
Governance and social control
6. Application of system dynamics to the economy
God in the market
¿Scientific totalitarianism?
Climate and economic denial
7: The (non) Massachusetts Institute of Technology forecasts
Critics and denials to LTG (Limits to Growth)
The professionals of no
Flank attack
Our patriot deniers
Roman dissonances
8: The real messages of Limits To Growth
Generational luxury
Limits to growing what?
The key messages
9: Measuring accomplishment
9.1 Revisions, and first conclusions
Could have been it correct, after all?
The 2014 review
Energetic crisis and influence on the economy
9.2 Microtutorial on concepts and definitions
The megamachine
What is peak oil
What is EROEI
The crux
The efficiency trap
Peaks of Barbastro
9.3: What exactly triggers collapse?
Where does the system crashes out from
Alternative energy has its limits, too
Electricity is just 20%
9.4 Is World3 unique?
NASA against inequality?
The Collapse of Complex Societies
10: Will we avoid?
Spanish major employer organization, and oil
Could it be milder?
Could it be worse?
Will we avoid?
11: How will limits manifest themselves?
Minimum EROEI
Breaking bubbles
When?
12: What about climate change?
Influence of peak oil
Irreversible groundwater melting
13: What can we do?
13.1 Critical Systems Thinking (10/01/2015)
Countermobilizing dynamics
The importance of the truth
13.2 De-spin (11/01/2015)
Proper use of energy scarce resources
14: What else can we do? (16/01/2015)
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More truth, stronger
Universal conscience
Unlimited love
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