Subject: Climate Change

Posted by Greg Wierzbicki on 12/6/2009
In Reply To:Climate Change Posted by Jay Forrester on 12/5/2009

Message:

Please forgive me if my intervention raises the specter of another
distracting influence. But, under cover of self-confessed
ignorance, I'd really like to know: Has there been any SD work to illuminate the leverage points that might present themselves if group and individual psychological processes which bear on climate policy were included within the boundaries of the system under study?

Materials available to non-SD professionals like myself -- including Meadow's "Primer", Richmond's & others published materials about STELLA, and numerous other references brought to my attention by this forum and others -- reveal nothing that would lead to the automatic exclusion of consideration of such processes. Yet, as I read Meadow's
(etal) original "Limits" many years ago, and the 30 year sequel more recently, I failed to see these processes dealt with explicitly. Nor have I found them to be directly called out in a cursory review of the synopses/abstracts of SD materials available through CLE or other distributors. It's certainly possible -- even quite likely -- that I overlooked, or did not fully comprehend, how they had been considered. Ergo, my somewhat presumptuous question.

FWIW, I'd also be interested to learn more about similar SD work to illuminate leverage points deriving from psychological processes related to education policy formulation, health care policy formulation, economic policy formulation, foreign policy formulation, and any other maddeningly dysfunctional policy formulation effort currently being distracted to death in full public view.

Thanks.

Follow Ups:

Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Dan Proctor 12/6/2009 
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Jay Forrester 12/6/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Greg Wierzbicki 12/6/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Louis Macovsky 12/6/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Greg Wierzbicki 12/6/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Michael Skelly 12/6/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Tim Joy 12/7/2009
Psychology in (or not in) systems modeling - Alex Leus 12/8/2009