Jump to 23m20s if you want to go right to the wild fishery illustration. The entire 4 part lecture is mesmerizing and worth watching as a part of understanding the history of collapse study.
Spoiler:
spoiler
In part one, she shows how with constant technology, the fishery is sustainable.
In part two, she shows how improving fishing technology creates a predator / prey collapse cycle, and that, furthermore, any additional technology creates a technology trap that damages the ecosystem carrying capacity (overshoot) and causes a system collapse that cannot recover.
If you have never watched this lecture on YouTube, it’s an absolute MUST.
This is Dana (Donella) Meadows (author of the Limits to Growth) explaining complex systems via the unsustainability of a collapsing wild fishery.
https://youtu.be/HMmChiLZZHg
Jump to 23m20s if you want to go right to the wild fishery illustration. The entire 4 part lecture is mesmerizing and worth watching as a part of understanding the history of collapse study.
Spoiler:
spoiler
In part one, she shows how with constant technology, the fishery is sustainable.
In part two, she shows how improving fishing technology creates a predator / prey collapse cycle, and that, furthermore, any additional technology creates a technology trap that damages the ecosystem carrying capacity (overshoot) and causes a system collapse that cannot recover.