ABSTRACT
Some unavoidable features of the metamorphosis are explored and preliminary ideas for containing them and guiding the metamorphosis away from catastrophic and toward desirable futures are outlined. There is quite some literature dealing with various stressors likely to stun humanity during the emerging metamorphosis and causing much hell on Earth. After a look at human robustness and adopting a holistic systems perspective, it adds to the lessons drawn from the past the novel stressors and neo-genesis technologies in the contexts of modernity and globalization. Doing so, together with examination of ongoing processes, leads to conjectures on expectable turmoil and opens the way for coping proposals, examination of resistors, and guesstimates of net outcomes. Proceeding to recent history, it is striking that in extreme stress situations humans make maximal efforts to survive and demonstrate amazing recuperation abilities, also after mass-killings and prolonged deprivations.
