1/ I've posted before about how amazing Donella Meadows was but I want to reiterate a point she makes about how wealth inequity and hierarchy are drivers of ecosystems destruction and climate change. https://twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1102277919336849408

2/ much of "sustainability" comes from notions of "maximum sustained yield" a way to look at a system such an ecosystem with fish with a growing organism with limits and then trying to figure out how much you can take while letting the system keep going.

3/ it's definitely true that many human-ecologies achieve this but they are mostly those that took millenia to develop - traditional ecological knowledge.

4/ but an attempt is made to assume that an economic analysis can be made and incentives built that will counter the tendency to over-harvest a resource.

For example the idea exists that as fish become harder to catch, the cost goes up which would slow down consumption.

5/ but the societies that over-consume are not egalitarian: there is always someone or an institution that is richer who is not prevented from buying for ex tuna as the prices go up. when there is always someone who can afford the price, there will always be a runaway process

6/ wealth inequity actually increases the incentives for a society to accelerate its extraction and exploitation.

this is why climate restoration requires climate justice. Because the people who carry the burden of a damaged world are not those that are driving it

7/ this doesn't mean that we don't all carry this burden to some degree- we are going to have to live in the impacts of that system and will be facing burdens every day and will be tasks with repair work in the 10 billion places we live. But the cause is not equally diffuse