Johan Schot is founder of the Deep Transitions research project. His Deep Transitions research proposes, that the way human behaviour and institutions have driven innovation and established systems of provision over the past 250 years, has led to current paradigms of industrial mass production and individualised mass consumption based on intensive use of fossil fuels.
This development is what he refers to as the First Deep Transition. To counteract the ecological degradation and social inequality caused by the first Deep Transition, radical change of our contemporary socio-technical systems of food, mobility, energy, healthcare and the rules that have driven their evolution, a Second Deep Transition is required.
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