Global Consciousness

Abstract

This article outlines how the technology revolution, globalization, and other historic forces are likely to create a “mature” global order. Because such changes are transformative, they require nothing less than an equivalent transformation of world views. Global warming, climate change, sustainable energy, financial crises, water shortages, cyber warfare, terrorism, political gridlock, and other threats are so profound that they cannot conceivably be averted with anything less than a shift in consciousness. Humanity faces the unprecedented challenge of accepting responsibility for safeguarding life on the planet, or this transition will fail. In common language, the world must grow up or die.