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Menu Marine Stories NOS Stories From The Ground When Someone Hucks a Rock at You, Go Talk to Them Herubey Avilés and his Twitchy Fish Net Lady Skiff and Her Lamp Why Do Fisheries Matter? The Stakes for Restoring Fisheries The Timeline of El Manglito Timeline of Notable Events Living Amidst Collapse The Beginnings of Community NOS Co-Founder Alejandro Robles Learn How To “Hold” Rather Than Resolve (Conflict) New Capacities For Listening To One Another Close Setbacks The Community Pushes Back The Story of the
‘Systems change’ brings long-term improvements to a situation because core problems are being faced. This can yield short-term complications as one adjusts to a new way of being, but in the long run the situation improves. It is the opposite of a ‘symptomatic solution,’ which involves a knee-jerk, quick fix to an undesired situation. Such a response may make everything better for a moment, but over time the situation worsens as one’s ability to face the real problems at hand increasingly fails.
(M.I.T. Prof. Jay Forrester, Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems .)
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