Notes - Conclusion Rational Thinking

The following are notes for Working Toward Sustainability Ethical Decision making in a Technological World.

• Include awareness of cognitive limitations and biases
• decisions ad infinitum not viable
• improve decisions by consciously avoiding common faults/biases
• Define system boundaries
• figure out appropriate scope/scale of a decision
• include both spatial and temporal effects, intergenerational effects
• Identify important stocks and flows
• think about rates of intake/outflow
• when effects take place
• be aware of full cause effect chain and timing
• Identify feedback loops when possible
• find out limitations of feedback loops
• what mechanisms drive a loop
• Increase information
• educate all decision making bodies fully
• Look at systems over events
• figure out if an event was caused by a system or spontaneous events
• if caused by system fix the system rather than focus on uncontrollable events

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