Wild Economics
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David Fleming paper: Wild Economics, Wolves, Resilience and Spirit – a study in interdependence
From Rob Hopkins' blog:
... David's amazing talk at the 2009 Transition Network conference in Battersea, called “Wild Economics: wolves, resilience and spirit”, a tour-de-force, at once enlightening, bewildering, and side-splitting in a way that only David Fleming could do. I made notes of some of the classic Fleming-isms…
- “it’s a good thing to avoid definitions, they only confuse things…”
- ”cathedrals are icons to the practice of disposing of waste”
- “I’d be amazed if I can explain this in a way that I can understand”…
I’ll close with my favourite quote from David, one I have often quoted:
- “Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”
Dr David Fleming: 1940-2010
Highly recommended reading if you're thinking about the design of resilient human systems.