Title

The Dynamics of Ecological Crisis

Description

The attached diagram illustrates the interconnections. It will be noted in this diagram each corner is clockwise, denoting that each is by itself a self-promoting (or, as the scientists say, "autocatalytic") phenomena: the bigger the population, the faster it grows; the more technology we have' the faster the rate of new invention; and the more we believe in our "power" over an enemy environment, the more "power" we seem to have and the more spiteful the environment seems to be. Similarly, the pairs of corners are clockwise connected to make three self-promoting subsystems. The problem facing the world and Hawaii is simply how to introduce some anticlockwise processes into this system.

Designer

Bateson, Gregory

Date

1970

Source

Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Bibliographic Citation

Bateson, Gregory. 1972 "The Roots of Ecological Crisis." In Steps to An Ecology of Mind. The University of Chicago Press (edition 2000).Fig. 1. Pages 498-500.

depict things of type

English Typological or Classification

English Conceptual

is composed of

English Circle

English Arrows

has attribute

English Arrow

English Solid Line

Coverage

ecology

society

technology