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Tammo Oegema
‘I was sixteen when Limits to Growth
got translated into Dutch; it was Wouter van Dieren who put it in the
limelight. I also admired the plea by our Economic Nobel Prize winner
Jan Tinbergen for a world government to find an overall solution to the
intricate problems of resources, world population, pollution, economic
development and distribution.’
Tammo studied Welfare Economics,
specialising in environmental and sustainability issues. His alternative
civilian service consisted of working on the environmental-economic
model SECMON underlying the Dutch broad public debate on energy issues
in the beginning of the eighties.
‘In those days, decarbonisation
was an important issue. And its importance has only increased since. I
am convinced that the speed of climate change is much higher than most
people believe, mainly because it is hard for us to imagine how
exponential processes evolve.
I joined IMSA in 1993. At the
time, Wouter van Dieren just became a member of the Club of Rome. What
attracted me was their systems dynamics approach, the broad variety of
projects, and the unconventional but obviously successful way of solving
societal disputes on sustainability issues.
Limits to Growth
(1972) has become my motivation. In our work for both authorities and
companies, IMSA applies both the contents of this report and the
underlying methodology of systems analysis. In a conflict situation like
our Wadden Sea project, for instance, this methodology enables you to
take into account the whole group of players with all their
interactions. Only then real win-win situations can be created.
Narrative journalist Irene van der Linde wrote a book about it: The Battle for the Wadden Sea, An overview of five years of political struggle. The book is available in Dutch only and can be ordered by sending an email to IMSA.
I
am interested in Cradle to Cradle. Not because,
environmental-technically speaking, it brings about something new, but
its power to stimulate entrepreneurs exceeds that of the old
environmental mindset. I once heard one of them say: “The environment?
Who cares! But C2C is fun”. In my opinion, the reason is that old
solutions like efficiency improvements do not yield much results, while
C2C is about the intelligent design and use of products, with an eye to
reuse.
My current position is that of senior consultant. My card
also says that I am a principal. This means that it is my job to
integrate IMSA’s methods and ideas in all of our projects and to enhance
their development.’
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