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Humanity, the Ecosystem
Framing is decisive. At every moment, we live and operate and relate to the world from inside our framing of it, our mental model of it. Relating to the world as made up of ecosystems will result in very different outcomes than relating to the world as made up of individuals, of discrete things that can be treated distinctly.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
La prise de conscience de cette communauté de destin terrestre doit devenir l’événement clé du xxie siècle : nous devons nous sentir solidaires de cette planète dont la vie conditionne la nôtre. Il faut sauver le soldat Terre ! Il
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
The story of humanity is an urban one, a slow 20,000 year drift towards a largely urban condition. A city does the same thing to individualism that a natural ecosystem does to a tree — thriving there is about living well with people who are not like you. Just as a tree revels in those multifarious interdependencies, so we do with cities.