Map of Systemic Interdependencies None Dares Name
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 31 Oct 2011
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
12-Fold Challenge of Global Life and Death
Produced on the occasion of the world population having reached 7 billion and of publication of the The State of World Population 2011 by the United Nations Population Fund — coincidental with a historic summit on the European sovereign debt crisis to “save Greece”, “save Europe” and “save the world economy.”
Mapping exercise
The exercise follows previous explorations (Mapping the Global Underground, 2010; Mind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse: why nothing is happening in response to global challenges, 2011). As in those cases, this is a partial response to the tendency of conventional strategic analysis to focus primarily on less controversial issues — typically structured so as to omit any recognition of issues arising from the demonstrable track record of inability to “deliver” remedies to strategic challenges (Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action, 2009). This can be understood as a pattern of denial — as exhibited at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (United Nations Overpopulation Denial Conference, 2009).
First iteration: As a tentative exercise, the following “map” is derived from the table which follows it, without considering any possible systemic relationships between the “functions” indicated. Those relationships are then considered in the second iteration which follows thereafter. The decision was made to identity 12 “functions” in the light of arguments previously made (Eliciting a 12-fold Pattern of Generic Operational Insights: Recognition of memory constraints on collective strategic comprehension, 2011). Indicative sub-functions were then clustered within each. A commentary follows thereafter.
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