Adaptation, cooperation, and learning from historical mistakes. Those seem to be the boiled down keys to national as well as personal recovery from traumatic events, although he uses a few more steps, including honest self appraisal, which I wrap up as part of learning from the past. He notes the need to look squarely at history without blaming or avoiding. Those are crucial first steps.

He cites many issues that we know how to solve, but seem unwilling to deal with, like consumption and fisheries management, in particular. These strike me as demonstrating the need to renew our social empathy across the human race, as he points out that we lack a sense of planet wide human identity.

This it seems that community, human community, is at the center of the problem.