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Dec 05 2023

Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: the thirty-seventh newsletter (2023)

by Vijay in Tricontinental….Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the...
Oct 10 2023

Spaces for Growth: Learning our Way out of a Crisis

By Graham Leicester and Maureen O'Hara In normal times we tend to go about our lives oblivious to the structures, institutions, processes and shared values that shape...
Oct 10 2023

Polycrisis: Prompts for an emerging worldview

Taking the realms of business, finance and economic history by storm, polycrisis captures the complexity of an increasingly uncertain world in a state of flux and...
Oct 10 2023

We are witnessing the first stages of civilization’s collapse

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose...
Oct 10 2023

An introduction to the Metacrisis

An introduction to the Metacrisis by Daniel Schmachtenberger, founding member of The Consilience Project. Moderated by Niklas Adalberth, founder of Norrsken Foundation....
Oct 10 2023

Deep Survival: Who lives, who dies, and why

Laurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers’ everyday lives. Its mix of adventure...
Oct 10 2023

The world’s population may peak in your lifetime. What happens next?

The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly —...
Oct 10 2023

Conditions on Earth may be moving outside the ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, according to dozens of scientists

Human activities have breached safe levels for six of these boundaries and are pushing the world outside a “safe operating space” for humanity, according to the report,...
Oct 10 2023

Ancient flood myths were a warning: heed the power of water

While the world must continue to adapt to worsening heat, increasingly intense wildfires, the acidification and warming of the oceans, and other climate threats, this...
Sep 14 2023

Prefixing the world

by Jonathan Rowson in Perspectiva…The metacrisis is the historically specific threat to truth, beauty, and goodness caused by our persistent misunderstanding,...