Understanding System Traps for Transformative Policy Making
summary
Argues that adopting system traps awareness and systems thinking lets policy and business spot when designs are outdated, cites the fast‑wood forestry subsidy that increases fire and pest vulnerability and notes cars sit idle 95% of the time as a design failure. Recommends tools: system archetypes, shadow accounting and CSRD reporting, OECD Better Life Index and Learning Compass 2030 for skills, and rechanneling finance as patient capital. Warns of a short painful transition—the delta of doom—versus collapse if business as usual continues.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50System Traps
- 3:25Updating Mental Infrastructures
- 4:13Information Breakdowns
- 7:50UNESCO
- 8:25Developing a design mindset
- 9:16Finding solutions
- 9:32Nature needs agency
- 10:52Reporting standards
- 12:03Three existential crises
- 12:47Better life index
- 13:12Circularity
- 13:38Convenience
- 14:11Design Potentials
- 14:47Financial Capital
- 15:44Role Models
- 16:52The Green Deal
- 17:39Delta of Doom