(not only) about repair society. by Peter
The podcast series describes the main ideas of the REPAIR book.
The book converts scientific theories into pragmatic strategies to manage our physical and social resources and make the world better. It propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources
The Pathways Toward the New Normal
We had several motivations for writing the book:
Today, we’re talking about two concepts. First, the idea of the Golden Age, an era that probably never existed. And second, general mechanisms for why things go wrong at all scales
Today, we’re talking about resilience and how broken systems return to normal. Let’s begin at the object level, as usual. Last time, we talked about feedback loops maintaining stability in physical systems and in relationships. In fact, this pattern of feedback loops leading to stability appears very often in nature. One example is the human body’s ability to maintain a stable temperature. And we have also used our understanding of feedback loops to improve people’s health and wellbeing, such as intervening in the broken feedback loops in diabetes to prolong people’s lives. And in the book, you go even further than just observing where they turn up and what happens if they don’t. Now if we think of systems as cohesive groups of interrelated parts, can you talk about how understanding feedback loops better have led to new general theories of the way systems work?
