#environment

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#environmental issue #food #issue #people #slow

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#butcher #complete #environment #growing #growing up

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #being #change #deal #each

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#each #environment #most #organism #organisms

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #each #environment #system #trying

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#current #each #environment #evolve #full