The industrial world-view is a dualistic either/or approach. It emphasizes parts over wholes and quantities over qualities. It often can't see the forest for the trees.

Because values such as love, truth, faith and beauty cannot be measured, they are not given much weight by decision makers. As a result industrial civilization knows more about destructive weapons than constructive relationships, more about wealth than happiness, and more about illness than wellness.

A sustainable global system will only be able to function if it is based on a global systems world-view. This integral perspective is a multirelational both/and approach. It enables us to understand dynamic processes as well as the interrelationships between parts and wholes and between quantities and qualities. It sees both the trees and the forest.

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