Allan Savory - Massive Environmental Malfunction

Published Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

From White Sands I headed back up to Albuquerque where I met and interviewed Allan Savory. He spoke to me about how, in his view, Global Climate Change is just one of three aspect of the “massive environmental malfunction” occurring on the planet today. The other two factors aside from Global Climate Change are Land Degradation (often called desertification) and Biodiversity Loss. It is these three things together that we are facing on an unprecedented level for the first time in human history.

Savory believes that humans have the capacity to help solve the problems facing Nature, but that we must approach it using the framework of holistic management, a term he coined and has been working with throughout the world for over a decade. He spoke at length about how we must not approach things with a linear compartmentalized scientific framework, but instead holistically as animals in a complex self-organizing natural system. I personally feel not thinking linearly is one of humanities greatest challenges. I consider myself pretty non-linear, yet I still found it difficult to let go of direct thinking while in conversation with Savory. Countless times I would draw conclusions or make points only to have him bring me back to a holistic management view, for which I am grateful.

I’m including a link here to Allan Savory’s A Global Strategy for Addressing Global Climate Change. It’s well worth the read if you’re interested in our world and the challenges we face, and I encourage you to send it along into your own personal sphere of influence.

peace,
d

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