I didn't know there was such a thing as systems theory, but this is exactly how I think - about all the feedback systems involved in regulating the body, and the earth's ecosystem, and the economy, and the climate... Why history unfolded the way that it did (all the factors had to be just so--and if they'd been a bit different, it all might have turned out very differently.) I don't know that I learned anything precisely brand new, but I did gain a new vocabulary to explain the same process playing out in so many different areas. What makes a system is interconnected feedback loops. This is precisely why sledgehammer interventions directly opposing a problem have unintended and often catastrophic long-term consequences, no matter what the system is. An easy and thought-provoking listen!

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