The Substance of Sustainability
Levien van ZonLevien van Zon on sustainability, complexity and storytelling.
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The Future is Fiction
We are so often presented with predictions for our future, that it’s easy to forget that the future hasn’t happened yet. By definition, all stories about the future are fiction. Yet we need expectations about the future, if only to plan ahe...
Why you may find this text boring
When talking about sustainability, we often assume that people behave “irrationally” because they are badly informed. Or perhaps they are selfish, or incapable of thinking about long-term consequences. Some or all of these things may be tru...
Hairballs & Loops
Reading time: ca. 15-25 minutes.
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Stories are important for how we see the world. In my first article, I argued that stories act as internal models of the w...
Entwined
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Beyond Optimists and Pessimists
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Levien van Zon was trained a Theoretical Biologist and Environmental Scientist, and has had an active long-standing interest in complex systems. He has spent the past decade thinking, talking and reading a lot about sustainability.
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