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"The acceleration of breakdowns in our system, such as population growth, hunger, poverty, violence, environmental decay, toxic wastes, the greenhouse effect, and pollution of the seas and soil, are mutually interactive and lead to increased entropy or disorder in the system. Some scientists have predicted that because of the rapidly increasing interactions among breakdowns, we may cause irreversible damage to our living system in a very short period of time. What is almost never noticed, however, is that there is a concurrent convergence of positive social innovations…
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, or social collapse. We can evolve toward the positive as quickly as we might devolve toward the negative because of the phenomenon of nonlinear exponential interactions. If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth."
--Barbara Marx Hubbard
Conscious Evolution, 1998
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Conscious Evolution
1998
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