Global warming, disasters in increasingly more populated and infrastructure'd regions of the world, the decline side of oil, and the space endeavor are part of the overarching problem of the expansion of the human ecology. The onset of the Anthropocene Epoch and the axial shifts of a highly globalized world and global economy are challenging the United States at a time when it is declining as a leader in science, engineering, knowledge, and technology - when it is ill-prepared to make quantum-leaping innovation. Rich multi-path transfers of knowledge lie at the crossroads of global warming and the space enterprise. They are critical to solving human ecology expansion problems during the bottleneck between two environmental-geological epochs. The United States is losing the lead in being able to contribute to these transfers of knowledge in the world system of societies. And, it is the capability of having something worth transferring in a world becoming evermore extreme that will keep the United States at the core of the world system of societies. Taking the astrosociological perspective, the author explores an important root cause of why the American lead is being lost. She outlines what must be done for the nation to regain its place as a competitive cooperator in the human prospect.
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