These add up to the cultural co-stupidity we find when we observe how whole societies respond to their pressing collective problems. Anything we can do to ameliorate the obstacles to societal intelligence listed above, will increase our culture's capacity to respond to its growing crises and all the dangers and opportunities of the 21st century. Another part of co-intelligence is collaborative intelligence , the capacity to work with the world around us, not trying to dominate it. A large part of our social and environmental problems arise from our effort to get what we want from the world without taking into account its needs or its wisdom. This leaves our economic and technological systems overextended and vulnerable.
Natural systems are resilient because their complexity has been evolving for billions of years.
Our culture is arrogant enough to think that it can create highly complex systems from scratch and get away with it. We lack the patience to learn from nature how to collaborate with it to grow what we need. We only have the capacity to force nature to tell us enough of its secrets to take what we want. This difference is visible in the distinction between indigenous science and modern science. Take the money and run.