Systems thinking : critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond. Barry Richmond, 1993

The problems that we currently face have been stubbornly resistant to solution, particularly unilateral solution. As we are painfully discovering, there is no way to unilaterally solve the problem of carbon dioxide build-up, which is steadily and inexorably raising the temperature around the globe. The problems of crack cocaine, ozone depletion, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, world hunger, poverty and homelessness, rain forest destruction, and political self- determination also fall into the category of “resistant to unilateral solution.”

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