We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provi...We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provide every person with a means of living consistent with their need for health and happiness.To achieve this future,we must navigate a successful species transition from transnational corporations to national governments as our primary institutions of governance,from competition to cooperation as our dominant mode of relating,and from growing GDP to meeting the spiritual and material needs of all the world's people within the limits of what living Earth can sustain as the economy's defining purpose.The governing institutions of an ecological civilization will support national and bio-regional self-reliance,the free sharing of information and technology,and balanced trade in goods for which one nation has a natural surplus and another is unable to produce for itself.Among the world's nations,China may be the best positioned to lead the world in this transition.展开更多
文摘We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provide every person with a means of living consistent with their need for health and happiness.To achieve this future,we must navigate a successful species transition from transnational corporations to national governments as our primary institutions of governance,from competition to cooperation as our dominant mode of relating,and from growing GDP to meeting the spiritual and material needs of all the world's people within the limits of what living Earth can sustain as the economy's defining purpose.The governing institutions of an ecological civilization will support national and bio-regional self-reliance,the free sharing of information and technology,and balanced trade in goods for which one nation has a natural surplus and another is unable to produce for itself.Among the world's nations,China may be the best positioned to lead the world in this transition.
