Indeed — very well put in joining the dots for this big-picture complexity analysis.
This homeostasis I submit, is a form of self-organised criticality, poised realm or universality behaviour.
We call it the Asynsis-Constructal paradigm, which includes the organism analogy for civilisation, which is the means to achieve genuine sustainability.
https://www.facebook.com/Asyntopia

The TED-shared background:
http://www.scoop.it/t/asynsis-principle-constructal-law
https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS