Sentence:  While this is the scale which, for many, is still difficult to perceive or accept, there are a number of signs that such <WSD>ecumenopolitan</WSD> systems are very much in the making.¹⁰ The two world wars are but consequences of frictions arising between two or three near-global "spatial/operational arrangements" dating back to fifteenth and sixteenth century concepts and to the systems which such concepts spurred. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.