hannah_fox 's review for:

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

1.0

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Part one is a good overview of systems with helpful visuals. Most of the rest of it is boring, repetitive, and in the case of the final chapter, pretentious. In the introduction, the author starts the book off on a bad note by listing problems facing the world today such as war, poverty, and environmental catastrophe, then saying “No one deliberately creates those problems [and] no one wants them to persist.” Absurd! In addition, she stigmatizes addiction and treats the tragedy of the commons as a legitimate phenomenon.