Scientists aim to pinpoint role of forests in battle against “hidden hunger”

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1. We are caught in a web of positive feedback loops

Warming Arctic <==> methane releases
Energy supplies <==> economic growth
Food supplies <==> population growth

Or, in general:
Consumption <==> Growth

The first one is easy to see as dangerous, because neither a warming Arctic nor uncontrolled methane releases are in anyone's best interest.

The last three are not only impossible to break, but very hard for most people even to see, because we're all embedded in the systems on the right hand side of the arrows. This problem of invisibility goes back to William Edwards Deming's famous quote: "A system cannot understand itself."

I'm not sure if there is an answer to this dilemma. I certainly haven't found one yet.