Change the Story, Change the Future by David Korten

Author:David Korten
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2015-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

MANAGED PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES

At each level of organization—from the individual cell to the multicell organism, to the local eco-community, to the bioregion, to the biosphere—the living organism must define and maintain itself within a managed membrane. This boundary is essential to its ability to maintain its internal flows of energy, nutrients, matter, water, and information in thermodynamic disequilibrium.

Breach the cell wall and the cell’s resources dissipate into its environment, resulting in instant death. Death also follows if the exchange between the cell and its environment is blocked. The cell must also have the ability to resist intrusion by toxic substances and by parasites that come to expropriate without corresponding contribution.

The same principle applies at every level of organization. Multicell organisms must have a skin or other protective covering. Oceans, mountains, and climatic zones bound major bioregional communities. Earth’s atmosphere serves as a protective membrane within which Living Earth maintains the environmental conditions essential to carbon-based life.

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