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Rick Osa's avatar

Another good example of interconnectedness and complexity is India's grand plan to interconnect its rivers to enable a massive expansion of the crop irrigation system. (See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03193-1?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter). This plan, intended to reduce drought conditions, could actually wind up reducing precipitation due to various feedback loops.

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Tom Durkin's avatar

Decades ago Yale Sociologist Charles Perrow wrote “Normal Accidents”, warning us about our failures to understand our intertwined systems and technologies.

We should have paid attention.

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