Hence, in order to improve, and to sustain our civilization there is urgent need for interdisciplinary, full spectrum, systemic analysis of global issues. We need to ask the 7 th generation question, as the elders of the First Nations do. Climate change, pollution, the loss of biodiversity, resource scarcity, and a nuclear holocaust are prime candidates. Planning human population, reducing consumerism, improving technology, and establishing global rule of law are likely to be the essential factors in any sustainability policy. The case of Galileo illustrates that in the past religious doctrine overruled scientific findings.
Religion is still a strong force in our times while science seems to dominate.
Dr. Robert Allore, Regis College, Toronto Rev. Through modern communication and transportation technology, global governance has become a possibility too. Humankind has the means to self-organize in humane and rational global and local governance structures that can replace the law of force by the force of global law based on universal ethics. The gross domestic product is a poor measure for the well being of a nation, and its citizens, since it assigns value to all activities, the constructive, and the destructive ones. Many European countries adopted environmental accounting as a national indicator for the nation s state.