The responsibility that now humanity is to make a deliberate transition to a sustainable global society in which science and technology will be mobilized to meet the basic physical and spiritual needs of people, to minimize human suffering and to create an environment which can sustain a decent quality of life all peoples. This will involve a radical transformation of civilization, new technologies, new uses for technology and new global economic and political systems. The world has reached the end of a triumphalist era in the use and development of science and technology.