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Global Emergency — economic and social instability

by Ervin Laszlo February 21, 2010

An emergency is a specific condition in a system, whether that system is an organism, a community, an ecology, or all communities and ecologies taken together. This condition signifies that the system is unstable and is not sustainable as it is; it either changes or breaks down. Societies exhibit economic and social instabilities, and nature [...]

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The already forgotten lesson of Haiti

by Ervin Laszlo February 6, 2010

On this paradisiacal but politically and economically depressed island of the Caribbean an almost unprecedented human catastrophe has happened before our very eyes. When the earth shook, hundreds of thousands were stricken, more than two hundred thousand have perished, and nobody knows just how many were left without a roof over their head. Now that [...]

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