OPINION: Towards a soft landing: a policy change for dissolving the polycrisis

Published on October 7, 2024

We fight and continue fighting for change. But what if the road towards true transformation requires something softer? Louis Klein, Secretary General of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) expresses his personal experience in this short essay and proposes a "soft landing" as the best way to open the space of possibilities. 

 

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