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class=glossaryItemBody>The size, or scale, of an object has a crucial influence on its nature.&lt;br /&gt;The significance is as decisive as geometry itself. Consider: the two circles are identical except that one is larger than the other. Are there any differences between them other than that simple difference in size?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes. Their proportions differ in a fundamental way: relative to their respective areas, the circumference (edge) of the large circle is less than that of the small one. The larger a circle, the smaller its edge relative to its area; the area rises with the square of the radius, whereas the circumference(...)</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/scale/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">scale</a>, gives peace to the tormented, enables young life, and accumulates a <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Grammar</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The way a language works: the received principles which enable it to communicate meaning, colour and joy.&lt;br /&gt;That, at least, is the meaning of grammar as applied to language. But &lt;em&gt;Lean Logic&lt;/em&gt; uses it in an extended sense as one of the key implications and elements of lean thinking. Lean thinking affirms that it is those who are actually engaged in a task who are better placed to decide on responses to events and shocks, and to invent local solutions, than is a centralised authority remote from the detail; there is local freedom to think. But this requires that there should be consensus on what(...)</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/grammar/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">grammar</a> of inherited meaning as generations change places.</p> <p>A <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Natural System</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>See Ecological System.&lt;br /&gt;&nbsp;</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/natural-system/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">natural system</a> lies in tension between life and death: death is as important to it as life. <em>A lot</em> of death is a sign of a healthy large population. <em>Too much</em> death is a sign that it is in danger; it is not coping; its terms of coexistence with its habitat are breaking down. <em>Too little</em> death is a sign of the population exploding to levels which will destroy it and the ecology that supports it. <em>No death</em> means that the system is already dead.</p> <p>The reduction of life to an icon—the assertion that life (<em>viz</em>, human life) is sacred—disconnects the mind from the <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Ecosystem</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>See Ecological System.&lt;br /&gt;&nbsp;</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/ecosystem/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">ecosystem</a> to which it belongs. It is a fertile error. Beneath the exaggerated regard for life lies an impatience with, a disdain for, the actual processes that sustain the ecology that sustains us. Expressing faith in the sanctity of human life is a licence—in a series of little, well-intentioned, <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Self-Evident, The Fallacy of the</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The self-evident—a statement of the obvious which is likely to turn out to be untrue.&lt;br /&gt;The social scientist Elinor Ostrom writes, &lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;I have learned to be sceptical whenever I hear the phrase, &quot;it is self-evident” that some empirical regularity occurs in a sociological setting. Patterns of relationships among individuals and groups tend to be relatively complex and rarely lend themselves to simple explanations. Reforms based on overly simplified views of the world have led to counterintuitive and counterintentional results.&lt;sup&gt;S19&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; In other words, avoid . . . &lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;a KISS (keep it simple, stupid)(...)&lt;/p&gt;</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/self-evident/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">self-evident</a> steps—to kill the ecology that supports it.</p> <p>The large-scale system, relying on its size and technology, and making an enemy of death which should be its friend, joins a battle which it cannot win. In <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Systems Thinking</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Guidelines for thinking about networks of interaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lean Logic&lt;/em&gt; makes a distinction between two kinds of system: the complex system and the modular system.&lt;br /&gt;It also recognises two more kinds of system which are special applications of these: the complicated system and the ecological system. &lt;br /&gt;The four are summarised in the table below.</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/systems-thinking/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">systems thinking</a>, death is sacred.<a href="https://leanlogic.online/footnote/d2/"><sup>D2</sup></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Related entries</strong>:</p> <p><a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Sacrifice-and-Succession</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The succession of life-cycles of the subdivisions, holons or parts of an ecology, whose sequence of death and renewal sustains the longevity of the ecological system as a whole and contributes to its resilience. In this context, death is benign participation, the key enabling condition of resilient, living community.&lt;br /&gt;&nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related entries&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Carnival, Wheel of Life, Resilience &lt;strong&gt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Recovery-Elastic Resilience &lt;strong&gt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Sacrifice-and-Succession.</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/sacrifice-and-succession/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">Sacrifice-and-Succession</a>, <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Wheel of Life, The</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>A way of thinking about the life-cycle of complex systems (woodlands, companies, civilisations, Gaia . . .).&lt;br /&gt;These can be understood as inhabiting the space defined by two variables or dimensions: &lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Potential&lt;/em&gt;: a measure of the richness of the system, in the sense of being able to make interesting things happen—the quantity and diversity of plant and animal life in an ecosystem; the friendships, trust and social capital sustained in a society; the skills and accomplishments of a political economy . . .&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Connectedness&lt;/em&gt;: the extent and strength of the linkages between different parts of the(...)&lt;/p&gt;</div>" href="https://leanlogic.online/glossary/wheel-of-life-the/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex="0" role="link">Wheel of Life</a>.</p> <a href="https://leanlogic.online/list-of-entries/">« Back to List of Entries</a> </div> <div style="clear:both"></div> <div class="thn_post_wrap wp_link_pages"> </div>   <div class="post_foot"> <div class="post_meta"> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <div class="author_box "> <div class="author_avatar"> <img width="100" height="100" src="https://leanlogic.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/david-fleming-100x100.png" class="avatar avatar-100 photo" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://leanlogic.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/david-fleming-100x100.png 100w, https://leanlogic.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/david-fleming-150x150.png 150w, https://leanlogic.online/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/david-fleming.png 205w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" /> </div> <div class="author_inner"> <h5>David Fleming</h5> <div class="athor_desc"> Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. 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