Sunday, February 17, 2008

Solutions

"When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way." --- Masanobu Fukuoka

Climate change, peak oil, colony collapse disorder -- a lack of understanding, or we don’t want to give anything up?

Are the solutions really so complex?