Examples of strengthening balancing feedback controls to improve a system’s self-correcting abilities include: preventive medicine, exercise, and good nutrition to bolster the body’s ability to fight disease, integrated pest management to encourage natural predators of crop pests, the Freedom of Information Act to reduce government secrecy, monitoring systems to report on environmental damage, protection for whistleblowers, and impact fees, pollution taxes, and performance bonds to recapture the externalized public costs of private benefits.
