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

Author(s) -

Paul Arthur Berkman

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

patterns

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2666-3899

DOI - 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100147

Subject(s) - pandemic , civilization , covid-19 , humanity , sustainability , lens (geology) , perspective (graphical) , through the lens metering , environmental ethics , geography , political science , environmental resource management , development economics , economics , computer science , engineering , law , ecology , philosophy , biology , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , artificial intelligence , outbreak , petroleum engineering

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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