John Thackara
Auteur van In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
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Diseñando para un mundo complejo. Acciones para lograr la complejo. Acciones para lograr la sustentabilidad (2013) 1 exemplaar
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The problem is that these alternatives are boutique, and even not evaluated themselves for actual evidence based sustainability given they are small and not well measured.
I find this unproductive, to reorient answers of sustainability around small businesses with intrinsically non scaleable models. In the extreme it creates the illusion of there being an answer where this is not so. Complex issues collapsed in small projects that are not measured and presented as direction for the world.
If only the author would acknowledge these limitations and explain that these are experiments and perhaps one will work better than others. Or is the proposition that if we embed lifestyle with production close enough we don’t need to worry about the world only our back yard?
To add to this there is the usual implicit bashing of technologies that could be part of the solution from nuclear to gene engineering...… (meer)