Chris Mayda: Our Non-Linear Jobs
It’s time we stopped holding jobs hostage. The jobs proposed today are often from the old linear industrial revolution. They pollute, cause social injustice, and operate for profit alone. Will these jobs help the environment, people, or ecosystems? Will they address the non-linear systems of the more complex real world? Or will they pass these external costs on to the consumer as they have been doing? Those industrial revolution jobs are based on ideas that are 200 years old when the world had 1 billion people. We do not live in that world anymore.
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ABOUT Chris Mayda
Chris Mayda is a geographer and working toward the Ecological Age. Following this line of thought she teaches with a holistic and ecological point of view.
She believes that we need to re-evaluate our goals and how humans fit into the world. To find our place we need to adopt a new mind-set. The sustainable mind-set changes our thinking patterns from the past reductionist paradigm to the more non-linear and complex paradigm of systems thinking.
Systems thinking opens up the linear closed-loop way we have been taught to think and goes from the Band-Aid mentality (passing problems along to the next election or generation!) to actually SOLVING the problems. It goes to the root.
She doesn’t think it will be easy, but it will move America from the crisis mode they have been operating in to a proactive stance. It will bring those countries that endorse this paradigm the kind of power we can be proud of (none of that chest beating!)
The ecological age is also about changing some other parts of the way we live. Living a sustainable and less consuming lifestyle and collaborating and co-operating instead of competing is a large part of the equation. She believes we have a long way to go with that in mind but that sustainability gives power to the ‘softer’ side of sciences, the immeasurable, our very humanity.”
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