The Pandemic Lens: Focusing across Time Scales for Local-Global Sustainability

Humanity faces a series of challenges over a range of timescales from minutes to centuries that are relevant to our sustainable development as a globally interconnected civilization. Our common survival at local-global levels depends on being able to understand the urgencies of exponential change ac...

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Autor principal: Berkman, Paul Arthur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100147
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description Humanity faces a series of challenges over a range of timescales from minutes to centuries that are relevant to our sustainable development as a globally interconnected civilization. Our common survival at local-global levels depends on being able to understand the urgencies of exponential change across these timescales. The “Pandemic Lens” introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic gives us perspective to operate with informed short-term to long-term decision making for the benefit of all on Earth across generations.
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spelling pubmed-76913902020-12-07 The Pandemic Lens: Focusing across Time Scales for Local-Global Sustainability Berkman, Paul Arthur Patterns (N Y) Opinion Humanity faces a series of challenges over a range of timescales from minutes to centuries that are relevant to our sustainable development as a globally interconnected civilization. Our common survival at local-global levels depends on being able to understand the urgencies of exponential change across these timescales. The “Pandemic Lens” introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic gives us perspective to operate with informed short-term to long-term decision making for the benefit of all on Earth across generations. Elsevier 2020-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7691390/ /pubmed/33294877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100147 Text en © 2020 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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