Chaos theory is the field of study in mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions--a response popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.[1] Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for such dynamical systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[2] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behavior is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[3] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[4][5] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. The theory was summarized by Edward Lorenz as:[6]
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.
In other words, we don't exactly know what we are going to get in relationship to our behavior. As physicist Albert Einstein quirked, "I can't believe God plays dice with the universe." Such is the lot of Mother Chaos (Tehom, the "Waters" in Genesis 1:2 or Tiamant in Babylonian myth.) https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrBT.JUsXJWCrwAVxZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyYzlkZzBnBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjExNjBfMQRzZWMDc2M-?qid=20100721161410AA35jKF)
Perhaps Nature is more "bottom up" than what we realized? Perhaps there is no externalized "God" running the show? Meanwhile, many chaos theorists say that chaos is another kind of order. In other words, every thing effects everything else.
On a more concrete level that speaks to our need to eat, we can ask: "How do we secure our food outside corporate grocery stores and farms while making their polluted ways of doing business a thing of the past?" Consider the likes of Permaculture Gardening https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111027143335AARuOoJ:
So permaculture will use fewer chemicals, retains soil, uses less water, and without the centralized commercial farms, there will be less need to freight the produce thousands of miles to the consumers who buy it, saving fossil fuels, and cutting pollution and greenhouse gases.
Permaculture works with Nature, not against. It's like the martial arts in the orient. You go with the movement of your "opponent," not against. In permaculture, this mindset means: less water is needed alongside fewer chemicals, no loss of topsoil, more food produced closer to the eaters, which means less fossil fuels needed which entails less pollution. Those are all pluses in my book. It also exemplifies the cosmic law: Change one thing you change everything.
The smaller the farms alongside more backyard gardens we have, means fewer commercial industrial scale farms. Corporate farms use tons of fertilizers and chemicals because they are planted as monocultures, which strip nutrients from the soil, and leave the crops vulnerable to pests and disease. There is also more topsoil runoff in commercial farming.
If you were to walk into any healthy forest, you would see a wide diversity of plants and animals to the point that with every step you take, you can go into a microclimate created in relationship to the plants and animals. A proper Permaculture Garden will do the same for your lawn or piece of land. And, yes, there are city Permaculture Gardens. It allows for creativity, so even in living in Baltimore City, you may be able to foster a healthy ecosystem. Not saying its easy, just saying it takes out-of-the-box thinking.
For more information, visit the Permaculture website:
Permaculture allows you to use fewer chemicals while the environment retains soil, uses less water, and without the centralized commercial farms, there will be less need to freight the produce thousands of miles to the consumers who buy it. The results include saving fossil fuels while cutting pollution and greenhouse gases.
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