The Dynamics of Ecological Crisis
- 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.
- Coverage
- ecology
- society
- technology
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