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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
13. Resilience of Earth System
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Abstract
This chapter explores how we as humanity can improve the resilience of the Earth system. To meet this need, we must realize that humanity has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which the sum of individual everyday lives has caused irreversible changes on Earth. Indeed, the Earth system has transgressed some of the scientifically-established planetary boundary thresholds, including climate change.
Meanwhile, our everyday lives have become more fragile due to unforeseeable risks. Probable underlying causes for this include the development of a complex and sophisticated society that has distorted regional interdependence.
In such an era, a link between global thinking and local action is necessary. Though not easy, it is not an impossible task. The key is to establish bundles of small, yet numerous, region-to-region and society-to-society relationships.