Encyclopedia Of World Problems And Human Potential (WebSeitz/wikilog)

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Encyclopedia Of World Problems And Human Potential

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is the result of an ambitious effort, since 1972, to collect and present information on the (13K+) problems with which humanity perceives itself to be confronted (see overview Description and Commentaries). It aims to clarify the challenges such problems represent to concepts, values and development strategies. The Encyclopedia encourages the discovery of a new conceptual dynamic for understanding and action, sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and paradigms by which people are separated - both from each other and from a promising future. http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/volall.php

overwhelming Systems Thinking tool: every problem links to lots of others categorized by: Broader problems; Narrower problems; Related problems; Aggravates problems; Aggravated by problems; Reduced by problems. Plus "strategies".

This would make an interesting Graph Drawing testbed (hello RDF weenies). Actually they have a bunch of maps and VRML diagrams of loops already.
some meta-thinking on Feed Back loops and Meta Phor
- list of some shorter loops (3Loop=35; 4Loop=115; 5Loop=527) and some longer loops
and commentaries on transformative approaches
would like to see some meta-criticism from an outside person...