Forest, Water and Peace – Worldview Imperative of the New Era. The replacement of primary terrestrial ecosystems by industrial biocomplexes (pastures, agricultural land, commercial forests) over the past two centuries has greatly simplified, on a global scale, the genetic information governing the naturally evolved climate-regulating functions of terrestrial biota (including the biotic regulation (https://link.springer.com/book/9781852331818) of atmospheric moisture transport (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16644) and cloud cover, two important uncertainties in climate change projections).
International protection of the natural ecosystems and ambitious research to understand their unmatched complexity are key to preserving human identity as a species and as a highly developed, ethically and intellectually competent society.