[college_physics]

One consequence of the broader scientific, technical and economic development is that humans now dominate practically every nook and crany of the planet (at least at their own physical scale).

I think the consequences of that development are by far not fully internalized yet by our vast and dispersed numbers that indulge a bewildering variety of legacy mindsets and pre-globalisation cultures.

The term globalization is typically used in rather narrow context (trade exchanges between countries) and we even consider that it is reversible. In fact its really useful to highlight the "globe" aspect of the term (the finite sphere). This changes the boundary conditions in which societies evolve.

We have moved from flat, open, expandable cultural islands where negative externalities can simply be ignored, and the social dynamics admits unstable (exponential growth) solutions, to enclosed, finite and deeply interconnected societies where the only viable solutions are harmonic oscillations (sustainability)

Assuming we don't head into collapse due to our mental inertia, it will take a couple generations for legacy mindsets to get crushed by the new reality and new paradigms for social governance ("technique") to evolve.