Global Sufficiency – A System’s Science Perspective on Addressing World Hunger
Written for the World Technology Network’s World Hunger Challenge, by Daniel Schmachtenberger
Note to reader: I did not write this, but found it extremely useful for understanding the current dilemma on earth and republish with assumed permission – CW
Preface:
“Our challenge is to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”
~Buckminster Fuller
The goal of this paper is to look at the larger contexts that the issue of global hunger exists within and identify some of the interaffecting and driving factors that are crucial to lasting success but may be less obvious to a more narrowed-in scope of focus, so as to be informationally equipped to develop strategies that are truly adequate to the scope and complexity of the task at hand.
I’d like to start by proposing a modification to the challenge, from “how to end world hunger”, to “how to end world hunger sustainably without externalizing harm to any other system in the process”.
This is in recognition of how inextricably interconnected our major global systems and issues are…necessitating strategies that