# Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet

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The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which points to a near uninhabitable planet by end of century if business-as-usual continues, is perhaps its most apocalyptic dimension. But the ecological crisis is intimately bound up with the business-as-usual political, economic, and cultural structures of [industrial civilization-as-we-know it](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/U/bo21630814.html).

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://ageoftransformation.org/only-collective-intelligence-can-help-us-stave-off-an-uninhabitable-planet/](https://ageoftransformation.org/only-collective-intelligence-can-help-us-stave-off-an-uninhabitable-planet/)