P permaculture is the application of systems thinking to whole living. It's a small community-based approach to food, shelter, clothing and so forth. So it's going back to the tribes of old. If that happens, maybe 10,000 years from now, humans will be back on track in that regard. We do have now technology for actually doing gene editing.
George Mobus is Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, Tacoma. His broad academic background saw him conduct research on artificial intelligence, cybernetics and systems science.
George joins me to discuss how systems science is failing to grasp the polycrisis—that the field has been split into silos, leaving most systems scientists without the tools to model the complexity of the emergency we face.
He also explains the neurological limits of individual human wisdom, suggesting the agricultural revolution affected our capacity for abstract thinking, before revealing how humans can work past those limits—collectively.
Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.
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