The scarcest resource may be the willingness to listen to each other

One reason people look at sustainability in different ways may be that we have different world views that influence how we look at anything.
Donella Meadows, the lead author of influential books titled The Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits that used a computer model to look at sustainability, took a stab at color-coding world views and exploring how they might influence outlooks on human population growth and planetary limits. She published the work as "Seeing the Population as a Whole," an article in the June 1993 issue of The Economist, a British magazine.

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