“Climate change does not listen to the morning’s news program, read the papers or hear the latest announcements by a government. It does not instruct hurricanes and tornadoes to stand down, floods to recede, the sun to turn down the heat or wildfires to be extinguished in response to a policy announcement, a president’s tweet, corporate-speak or a denier’s assertion. The planet will do what the planet will do. Hopes, beliefs, egos and adversarial arguments are extraneous to it. Laws, plans and targets are powerless without effective action. The current political systems cannot cope. What is at stake is the quality of on-going human existence in relation to the biosphere, a relationship achieved through acts of governing.”
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency shows how systems thinking can be harnessed to effect profound, complex change. Arguing that failure in governance is at the heart of a collective incapacity to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergencies, along with the subsequent inequalities they cause, it goes beyond analysis of the problem, demonstrating how incorporating systems thinking into governance at every level would enable us to break free of historical shackles. This book is for anyone with the ambition to create a more sustainable and fair world.
