Greg Watson -- In Search of Integrity
Channel: Bionutrient Food Association
Date: 2021-11-08

As a freshman at Tufts University in 1967, I found myself engaged in a personal struggle to reconcile the goals of the civil rights and environmental movements. My African American colleagues considered the latter to be irrelevant at best, and downright counterproductive to the goals of Blacks in the eyes of many. Limited-growth slogans rang hollow, suggesting the door was closed to those still struggling to achieve economic equality. My formal education was of little use in helping me resolve this conundrum. 

Convinced that my frustrations in finding solutions to this apparent conflict between economic equality and environmental quality was the result of wrong-headed thinking about how the world works, I embarked upon what was to become a more-than-fifty-year journey in search of integrity – the overarching wholeness and underlying moral foundation of the world that has been consciously obscured by false narratives perpetrated by a host of bad actors motivated by ignorance, fear and greed. 

The connecting thread/creative tension that has pulled me along and served as my compass on this journey has been an evolving understanding and application of systems thinking inspired initially by the discoveries, insights, inventions and writings of Bucky Fuller.

From the 2021 Soil & Nutrition Conference  -  https://soilandnutrition.org/​
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