Invitation to Japanese Society of Human-Environment System

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The Industrial Revolution, which began in England at the end of the eighteenth century, resulted in “affluent society,” characterized today by mass production and enormous consumption. On the other hand, accelerated by population increases and its accompanying enlargement in energy consumption, the environment started to deteriorate, calling to the minds of people the problems concerning the global environment. One such cause is people's desire to seek convenience and comfort in the broad sense. Today, having realized the limitation of what the global environment can endure, the very basics to sustain the continuation of life of all species, inclusive of mankind, is to grasp accurately the condition under which we live and to look into the future with a firm decision to divert ourselves from the lifestyles and habits that we have been accustomed to In other words, such diversion extends to matters pertaining to the lives of individuals, their awareness of others and surrounding conditions, their criteria for values and quality of life. Once having taken note of these, in order to clarify the various problems concerning people and their environments and to provide solutions for them, one must be able to maintain a system to accumulate and analyze data, open them to the public, and to forecast the future, to propose, to guide and to direct to the solution, which will be widely and easily accepted by society. By doing so, we hope to create a society where people can enrich a sense of humanity and share the responsibility of mankind.