A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

The climate continues to deteriorate.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.