loss · economic

When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.

Loss (noun) means: When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference. It emerges from change, difference: A change makes the thing not here and the difference records that the before and after are not the same. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers erased $630 billion in market value within days. economics
• The Aral Sea shrank by 90% after Soviet irrigation projects diverted its tributaries. environment
• The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster disabled 4.7 gigawatts of generating capacity. engineering

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

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