"Earth is now in the balance. Our planet harbors a precarious collection of animate and inanimate localized systems amidst an intricate web of global energy flows. All these complex systems—whether non-humanly natural or humanly built—need to heed the laws of thermodynamics as unavoidable ground rules governing their existence. Consciousness, too, including societal intentions and technological decisions likely to dominate our actions for as long as our species endures, will likely require a broad evolutionary outlook, for only with awareness and appreciation of the bigger picture can we perhaps survive long enough to continue playing a role in our own cosmic-evolutionary worldview. All things considered, humanity, together with its society and its machines, might be among the minority of winning complex systems in Nature, continuing to make big history while advancing cautiously along the arrow of time."

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