Climate Change and Requisite Variety.
Why aren’t we meeting the challenge of climate change?
Why aren’t we meeting the challenge of climate change?
The big WHY? Question that has occupied my thoughts from reading climate science and studying James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis.
My published research has focussed on how people work together to create knowledge. Starting point for contemplating the “WHY” question was to think about the flow of causality in collaborations tasked with creating knowledge to combat climate change. Then perhaps I could suggest a way of improving outcomes?
The framework assumes a value proposition can be devised to guide devising a solution to climate change. Climate change or global warming is a wicked problem. It’s extremely difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing knowledge of a situation that is changing, adapting and complex in its interactions. In these circumstances a value proposition cannot be devised that would satisfy expectations of traditional profit-driven stakeholders.
