Volume 50, Number 3, pages 1-4, 5 pages
Primary Topic: Sustainability
SummaryJohn Sterman, head of MIT Sloan’s System Dynamics Group, explores how to get people to think for real on sustainability, why the conventional wisdom about energy is just a myth, and how to live as if there’s just enough time left to save the world.
Above all else, MIT Sloan professor John Sterman is a world-class “systems guy”—he leads the school’s System Dynamics Group, is a trained scientist, is co-leader of MIT Sloan’s Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab), and perhaps unsurprisingly brings to any conversation about sustainability a certain impatience with views that refuse either to confront the evident facts or, for that matter, to see the problem whole instead of in parts, to see it as the systemic set of interdependencies that it is.
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