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8 MANAGING THE PLANET Advances in science and technology are culminating in humanity’s growing ability to manage the globe. Managing the globe is taking an active role in influencing, guiding, supervising, or governing the natural and built environments, where human activity continues its expansion underground, underwater, and in space. It also includes managing the social environment, which encompasses the planet’s 8.4 billion people and their demographic, economic, and political systems as they grow increasingly complex. Most people who agree that we are in the early stages of global man- agement question whether we can do it wisely; others question whether we are even doing it at all. Gaining an understanding of one piece of a global system or issue often reveals a much larger scope of implications. Defining the bounds of global management will continue to be diffi- cult, characterized by overstepping and retrenching. A UN executive, in re- sponse to an question about the progress to global management on G-NET (the global news network) said that “we are perhaps 10% of the way towards true global management. It is hard to say what 100% is, but it is clear that we are j us t s cratching the surface. There are many things that w e will accomplish over the res t of the century. Mana ging the globe indi cate s a s hift from reactive to proactive and, increasingly creative approaches to the future.” Although the debate over what constitutes global management contin- ues, it is clear that we are increasingly able to manage complex global systems and issues. Global managing is growing more effective but is still incomplete wi th reg ard to envi ronme ntal i s s ues, popul a tion control, war, cri me, de s i gn a nd location of bus i ness facil iti es , trade re gulati on, di s e as e preve nti on, and busines s practices. The benefits of global management include improvements in weather prediction, controlling the effects of natural disasters, instantaneous world- wide communications, and conflict resolution. The trade-off is a more regu- l ate d w orl d. F or exampl e, free trade ha s given w ay to manag ed trade. In many
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