The noted British scientist Eric Ashby once warned that for industrial societies to continue to exist, mankind must reconcile itself in three areas: besides reconciling itself with nature and learning to allocate limited resources fairly and rationally, people must also learn to get along with those of a different ideological persuasion.
英國著名科學家艾胥比曾對廿世紀工業文明提出這樣的忠告：工業社會若要生存下去，人類必須做到三種和解，除了對自然的和解，和公平合理分配有限資源，就是人類如何與他們意識形態不同的弟兄和解。