Desenvolvimento sustentável

GAIA PROJECT – SUSTAINABILITY: A PROPERTY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS.

Part 1: ∑ Past = Present and ∑ Present = Future.
The project starts fostering a better understanding of the origins and evolution of humanity and human consciousness, re-examining the psychological and cultural basis of today’s one-dimensional identities and hierarchical social structures to envisage new paths for the evolution of today’s social, economic, and cultural structures and processes.

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“What is it that creates change in society? What changes peoples’ relationships to each other and the environment? In one way or another it is technology. You have new ways of handling energy and information. Therefore you can communicate differently, use resources, process resources, and discard them in different ways. So hard, technology is at the core, it is the trigger.”

What did cause the extinction of all, everywhere?

Contemporaneous
Prehistory

Time
Ancient Age

Middle Age
Modern Age

Part 2: The challenges of our generation.

Sustainability or collapse of societies follow from the success or failure of problem-solving institutions and that societies collapse when their investments in social complexity and their “energy subsidies” reach a point of diminishing marginal returns.

Why do complex societies collapse?

All social structure has a thing in common: increasing complexity until there is a sudden simplification or collapse.

It doesn’t solve a problem given as a response