Global Sustainability. Timescales, Magnitudes, Paradigms and Black Swans

James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan
2012

We live in a time of great change, an increasingly global society, driven by the exponential growth of new knowledge and knitted together by rapidly evolving information and communication technologies. It is a time of challenge and contradiction, as an ever-increasing human population and invasive activities of humankind are now altering the fragile balance of our planet.