CineScope

Season 1, Episode 2

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

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Air Date: 2011-05-30

Overview: This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.

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Adam Curtis

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Ayn Rand

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Stewart Brand

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Peder Anker

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David Attenborough

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Richard Brautigan

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Bill Clinton

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Richard Dawkins

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Tord Björk

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Daniel Botkin

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Barbara Branden

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Nathaniel Branden

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Rachel Carpenter

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Jay Forrester

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Randall Gibson

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Al Gore

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Molly Hollenbach

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Kevin Kelly

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John McCaskey

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Joan Mitchell

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Kevin O'Connor

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Keniche Ohmae

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Steward Pickett

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Kathleen Price

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Stephen Roach

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Robert Rubin

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Michael Ruse

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James Schwartz

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Peter Schwartz

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Joseph Stiglitz

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Dave Swift

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Peter J. Taylor

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Alvin Toffler

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Fred Turner

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Loren Carpenter

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Dian Fossey

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Alan Greenspan

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