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Embracing mistakes and learning from them has been a transformative journey for me. As someone who tends to overthink and strive for perfection, I used to fear making mistakes, worrying they would impact how others perceive me. However, as I've grown, I've come to realize the profound truth in the saying: "In order to succeed, you must be willing to fail." Each mistake is an opportunity for growth, and it's the guidance and support from mentors and superiors that truly shape our journey. I've learned to appreciate the constructive feedback and view it as a catalyst for personal and professional development. Let's embrace our imperfections, learn from our mistakes, and continue to grow. #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #EmbraceMistakes

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A good critique on ‘techno optimism’ in relation to climate change, AI and technology in general. Basically, we’re not going to solve the unintended problems caused by technology with even more technology. For instance, we can’t switch to a global electric car park because we’ll simply run out of lithium. Also we can’t carbon capture 200 years of emissions from the air with technologies that don’t exist yet and must be paid with public money. The answer is #degrowth I’d say. We must calm down, slow down, do less, buy less and live more.

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The Role of Simulation in Sustainability: Exploring the Five Core Areas

What’s your reading list in new year? #safe2great is not just a discussion of the future of leadership, it’s also a method for organizational transformation. The first book to comprehensively combine #growthmindset and #psychologicalsafety into a single approach to address the biggest challenges and opportunities of our time. Thanks Monique de Ritter, PhD for your plug and looking forward to your reflections.

https://lnkd.in/gm8FCD6t At 1/4th way in, WHILE touching - albeit a RATHER cursory nod THOUGH - on the absolutely MOST critical ingredient, WHICH is the overall Limiting Factor, Raw Materials, e.g., RESOURCES from the Natural World [Think: Limitations & Depletion], Fossil Minerals & Energy + Stuff THAT grows THAT are the crucial inputs (AKA: throughputs, i.e., stuff from nature into products +via industrial processes = waste pollution & trash); THUSLY, making the overall Ecosystem or Ecosphere (AKA: The Biosphere) the largest circle ⭕ -- within WHICH literally everything else is made possible & THEN functions ~ Labor + Capital + Technology = Society & Civilization operates. AND, herein - The Ecosphere - can ONLY exist!)... By 1/2 to 3/4s way THROUGH, ALL of THIS is omitted. BLUF: The Great Simplification (Hagens et al) is ALREADY upon us, AND fully + necessarily so; AND THIS is no 🚫 presumption NOR presupposition, INSTEAD IT is the central, essential, and indispensable factor (non-variable in ANY equation or discussion about The Future!). HENCE, in the bottlenecks, mentioned BUT glossed over here, will continue THIS century -- as Humanity NOW makes the Project of Civilization mainly one of: Sustainability, Circular Economy (Re: Donut Economics), AND the primary & key 🗝️ Forcing Function going forward. THEREFORE, in light of THIS glaring omission in your nonetheless fascinatingly prescient & brilliant presentation HERE, it might be prudent to issue a sequel if not an addendum to THIS episode.

Old and New Environmental Racism Professor Yang asserts ""Raw sewage and fecal matter accumulating in backyards, sometimes backing up into homes, public health emergencies due to lead-contaminated drinking water, chemical and toxic waste-contaminated flood waters endangering residents after natural disasters, and air pollution emergencies that send thousands to local hospitals for respiratory distress are conditions that one might imagine in the poorest countries of the developing world or in an America from a century ago. Yet they are regularly encountered by people of color and other marginalized communities around the United States. The disparate environmental conditions of minority communities and other marginalized populations have proven to be among the toughest, if not the toughest, long-standing environmental regulatory problem to vex the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “Agency”). Starting with the EPA's creation of the Office of Environmental Equity in 1991, the federal agency has supported a number of policies and initiatives addressing serious disparities in pollution conditions and environmental quality across communities. From the beginning, however, the EPA chose to ignore the embedded nature of racial biases in the regulatory system and approached these issues from a color-blind perspective. Unfortunately, ignoring race as a salient characteristic of environmental disparities has seriously hampered effective responses. For decades, it blinded the Agency to the continuing significance of race, especially as then-Reverend Benjamin Chavis described it when he coined the phrase “environmental racism.” For Chavis, environmental racism described not only the discriminatory targeting of communities of color with pollution and toxics, but also the failure of government officials to act on such racial disparities. In his words, environmental racism was the product of “racial discrimination in environmental policymaking[,] enforcement of regulations and laws[,] the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and the siting of polluting industries[, and] the history of excluding people of color from the mainstream environmental groups ... and regulatory bodies.” In fact, the continued pervasiveness of racial disparities even decades later has prompted at least one media commentator to call environmental racism another version of “The New Jim Crow.”

I replicated this in less than 30 minutes!! My speed is improving....

It's a common responsibility..