The Pandemic Lens: Focusing across Time Scales for Local-Global Sustainability #MMPMID33294877
Berkman PA
Patterns (N Y) 2020[Nov]; 1 (8): 100147 PMID33294877show ga
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.