Leading Thoughts for November 28, 2024

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Environmental scientist Donella Meadows on nonmaterial needs:

“People don’t need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don’t need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.

“Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.”

Source: The Limits to Growth (Read Online)

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Architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller on creating change:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Source: As quoted in Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure

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