~ WEBINAR EVENT SERIES CO-SPONSORS ~
The FAN Initiative, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere, The Resilience Project & The New School at Commonwealth
Ghastly Discussions & Response
Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement
Multiple global crises—including the pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s war on Ukraine—have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood. Dr. Michael Lawrence, a Fellow at the Cascade Institute Read...
Resilience revisited 014: Beyond the binary of “Resilience is Resistance” – Imagining resilience as oscillation
Rachel Donald's recent @PlanetCritical conversation with Max Wilbert titled "Resilience is Resistance," captures a profound truth about how communities defend themselves while building alternatives. After reading Imbolo Mbue's "How Beautiful We Were," I was struck by...
The world economy is on the brink of epochal change
The world economy is like a supercomputer that churns through trillions of calculations of prices and quantities, and spits out information on incomes, wealth, profits, and jobs. This is effectively how capitalism works—as a highly efficient information-processing...
Why is ChatGPT telling people to email me?
Journalists depend on tipsters: people who observe something noteworthy, or experience it, and alert the media. Some of the technology investigations I’ve worked hardest on in the past — on facial recognition technology and online slander — started with tips in my...
Dimensions of the Great Turning
The work of the Great Turning, which is vast and complex, clusters naturally into three areas, or dimensions. Perhaps you can locate your own efforts in one or more of these dimensions? Reflecting on the dimensions may also illuminate where you are called to serve....
Rethinking resilience
Resilience has been cast in the glow of the heroic comeback: the cancer survivor turned bestselling author, the amputee who runs a marathon, the refugee who becomes a congresswoman, the penniless single mother who becomes an environmental lawyer and saves her polluted...
Donella meadows revisited
This text was written by Dr Donella H. Meadows in 1982 to document the formation of the Balaton Group, a network of systems researchers and practitioners that formed the same year. It was in this context that bioregionalism as an ecological proposition first converged...
Texan stoicism provides comfort, and excuses, after the flood
Faced with an unfathomable disaster like the July 4 flooding, Texans have found pride, and maybe some comfort in their identity as Texans, strong, silent, stoical and resilient. It can be seen on the “Texas Proud” T-shirts at the H.E.B., the grocery store chain that...
Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery
Your guide to finding accurate information, emergency kits, evacuations, protecting your home, and more if you’re at risk of a hurricane, wildfire, flood, or other disaster. Ideally, you’d have weeks or days to prepare for an extreme weather. But the reality is,...
Planetary salutogenesis: reimagining health in the age of the anthropocene
For centuries, Western medical practice has focused on what makes us sick. Yet as the Earth’s systems fray under the cumulative stress of industrial modernization, a more radical proposition is emerging: what if the key to health lies not merely in avoiding illness,...
We are the great turning
We welcome you to the kitchen table of the legendary eco-spiritual teacher Joanna Macy, where we’ll dive into what it takes to live with our hearts and integrity intact in this time of global crisis. You’ll be guided into these conversations by Jess Serrante, a...
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Paul R. Ehrlich, Andrew Beattie, Gerardo Ceballos, Eileen Crist, Joan Diamond,Rodolfo Dirzo, Anne H. Ehrlich, John Harte, Mary Ellen Harte, Graham Pyke, Peter H. Raven1 William J. Ripple, Frédérik Saltré Christine Turnbull, Mathis Wackernagel and Daniel T. Blumstei
An international group of 17 leading physical and social scientists, including OMEGA Advisory Board member Joan Diamond, have produced a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the state of civilization, warning that the outlook is more dire and dangerous than is generally understood.
The paper has generated over a thousand media articles and interviews which suggests that public interest is extremely high despite competing news– insurrection, inauguration, and pandemic.
This Ghastly study has been covered in media organizations including CNN World, Reuters, The Guardian, International Business Times, Taipei Times, The Irish Times, and the University of California among many others.
See full article published by Frontiers in Conservation Science, 13 Janurary 2021.