In the book, Thinking in Systems, a case study of a forest logging program explores how short-term wins can have very harmful long-term consequences when a core-systemic process is affected. This feels like a similar situation: core-systemic impact without the appetite to bolster the system in parallel.
Great reference, and the parallel holds tighter than I'd like. Meadows' point is that the harvest signal and the regeneration signal run on different clocks, so by the time the feedback loop closes the system has already shifted underneath you. You've named the gap well: nobody's funding the bolstering at the same pace as the mining.
In the book, Thinking in Systems, a case study of a forest logging program explores how short-term wins can have very harmful long-term consequences when a core-systemic process is affected. This feels like a similar situation: core-systemic impact without the appetite to bolster the system in parallel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_In_Systems:_A_Primer
Great reference, and the parallel holds tighter than I'd like. Meadows' point is that the harvest signal and the regeneration signal run on different clocks, so by the time the feedback loop closes the system has already shifted underneath you. You've named the gap well: nobody's funding the bolstering at the same pace as the mining.