[Garry Bowen]

The eclectic approach is hopefully encourages one to be well-informed as to the importance of all interrelationships inherent to a ‘system’, unfortunately all too often ignored in man’s domination of most of the Earth’s dynamic systems, as evidenced by the heart-wrenching decision to name our current geologic era Anthropocentric [Man at the Center]

[Garry Bowen]

Not knowing a systemic view contributes to unintended consequences (in compounding existing concerns & problems)?

The oft-mentioned focus on specialties does not allow an overarching vantage point from which to determine, let alone consider, any of the overall effects on a system; indeed, there have been cases where an introduction of a species designed to alleviate a particular village problem turns out to exacerbate (sometimes much later) damage worse than the original problem – those outcomes are considered ‘unintended’, but nevertheless very dangerous to entire ecosystems

[Garry Bowen]

How does a systemic view contribute to understanding the whole planetary picture?

When the 1st entire global view photo was taken by an astronaut all those years ago, then used as the 1st cover of the now legendary Whole Earth Catalog, no one had an awareness of our isolation as a singular home to all species we knew of, and some we didn’t know of, but subsequently discovered a new perspective towards understanding Earth’s dynamic,then subsequent to that, the dynamic of too much life taken advantage of, and exploited . . .

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