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he term “Compression” refers to the end of economic expansion as we currently know it, that is, ongoing growth enabled by the practices of the Industrial Revolution and powered mostly by fossil fuels. High-consumption industrial societies created many benefits we’d like to keep, but also huge problems that we cannot put off dealing with. To […]https://thesystemsthinker.com/wp-content/uploads/images/volume-24/our21st-century-challenges-selflearning.jpg