https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/on-the-cusp-the-immediacy-of-societal-transformation-57c8ee18aca3

“What I am suggesting is the purposive and behavioral analog of the scenario exemplified by the first primate to leap an order of awareness of in terms of utility… from instance to »class. This kind of leap is not merely possible for our species… the entire history and future of life on Earth can be understood to be »exerting profound pressure on us… to either advance in this way… or … to be »shocked by a cascade of devastating cataclysms that will induce us to change course or perish.”

https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/on-the-cusp-the-immediacy-of-societal-transformation-57c8ee18aca3