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Can we humans continue to live and work as we have until now within the resource

limits of the earth? And can we sustain the earth’s bountiful resources, including a

clean and healthy environment, for generations to come? Recently, alarms have

been sounded predicting a catastrophic future for the earth’s environment and

resources, and most informed people feel anxious about the dangers that may lie

ahead. However, few of the people sounding these alarms have offered convincing

plans of how we can navigate safely past the impending dangers. The goal of this

book is to propose a concrete vision of a road to a sustainable future for humanity

and the earth. By a “sustainable earth,” we mean a way of living our lives and

conducting the various activities that support our lifestyles within the bounds of

the earth in such a way that we do not exceed those bounds, either by depleting

non-renewable resources or by overloading the capacity of the earth and particularly the earth’s biosphere for renewal. As we will see in this book, the sustainability

of the earth is a dynamic process of circulations in large-scale and complex systems.

Human society is one such system, and in order to make human existence on the

earth sustainable, we must fi gure out how we can create a social infrastructure that

sustains circulations matching those of the earth