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A Quest for Sustainability
noetic.org -- Our generation is charged with an unprecedented responsibility: to lay secure foundations for global civilization that can last for thousands of years. To accomplish this task, I believe that we must, in the coming decades, maintain and greatly enhance our technical capacities and cultural stability, while simultaneously changing almost every technological system on which we now depend so that it causes no harm to people or the natural world, now or in the future.

At the dawn of the third millennium, human civilization finds itself in a seeming paradox of gargantuan proportions. On the one hand, industrial and technological growth is destroying much of nature, endangering ourselves, and threatening our descendants. On the other hand, it seems we must accelerate our industrial and technological development, or the forces we have already unleashed will wreak even greater havoc on the world for generations to come.

We cannot go on, and we cannot stop. We must transform.

posted by West 2:26 PM