ABSTRACT

We are in the Systems Age of development and facing a number of related critical issues at a range of temporal and physical scales. These now threaten the world’s environment and the human race’s place in it. This paper discusses the array of problems involved and the need to tackle them at the systems level, to identify sustainable solutions and resilience measures to avoid large scale undesirable outcomes. There is a need to avoid the usual conclusion after such events that ‘lessons must be learned’.

中文翻译：

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塑造形状并避免世界末日

摘要

我们正处于发展的系统时代，并在一系列时间和物理尺度上面临许多相关的关键问题。这些现在威胁着世界环境和人类在其中的地位。本文讨论了所涉及的一系列问题以及在系统层面解决这些问题的必要性，以确定可持续的解决方案和弹性措施，以避免大规模的不良后果。有必要避免在此类事件之后得出“必须吸取教训”的通常结论。