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

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

Dec 5, 2023 | Polycrisis

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 environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.

The blue dollar economy

Oct 15, 2023 | Economy

Dollarization of the Argentine economy, which appeared an eccentric wish only a few months ago, now dominates media headlines and dinner table discussions and has become a subject of academic research.

The tragedy on the financial horizon is closer than you think

Oct 10, 2023 | Economy

In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “Tragedy of the Horizon.” The concept was simple: climate change creates tremendous risk for financial markets, but these mounting risks are ignored by...

Spaces for Growth: Learning our Way out of a Crisis

Spaces for Growth: Learning our Way out of a Crisis

Oct 10, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction, Polycrisis

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 our behaviours. In powerful times like ours, deep structures of love, power and...

Why 2% is the most dangerous number no one is talking about

Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience

We’ve had a summer from hell, with July 2023 temporarily claiming the title of hottest month on record. But while the klaxons of Earth’s climate system have riveted nearly everyone’s attention, something else is silently happening to us and other...

Finding the trickle

Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience

Idah Murithi shares a captivating tale of a young girl’s journey to restore a river and educate her community about the power of collective action in safeguarding natural resources. This is one of the five winning stories from the Resilience Perspectives storytelling contest.

The bold idea to move millions to climate havens

Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience

The race against time to plan for climate migration has begun. In 2022, climate change and climate-related disasters led nearly 33 million people to flee their homes and accounted for over half of all new numbers of people displaced within their...

The benefits of collapse acceptance – part 1

Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience

For years I felt quite timid about my concerns, and then my conclusions, on the dire future of modern societies under increasing environmental stress. When my Deep Adaptation paper went viral, I didn’t ride the wave onto TV screens and into...

Polycrisis: Prompts for an emerging worldview

Polycrisis: Prompts for an emerging worldview

Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis

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 transition. Proponents of the polycrisis model, such as prominent economic historian...

We are witnessing the first stages of civilization’s collapse

Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis

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 to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that...

Arundhati Roy: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world

Oct 10, 2023 | Politics

Millions live on subsistence rations delivered in packets with Modi’s face printed on them. India is a very rich country with very poor people. One of the most unequal societies in the world. For its pains, Oxfam India has been raided too. And...

Climate risks place 39 million U.S. homes at risk of losing their insurance

Oct 10, 2023 | Economy

From California to Florida, homeowners have been facing a new climate reality: Insurance companies don’t want to cover their properties. According to a report released today, the problem will only get worse. Tik Root Read the full article by Tik...

Here’s what’s missing from San Francisco’s understanding of its Honduran drug dealers

Oct 10, 2023 | Community

The fentanyl crisis in San Francisco is real. And, as the Chronicle’s recent investigative series on Los Hondos revealed, there are a disproportionate number of Honduran migrants selling these opioids in the Tenderloin and South of Market...

An introduction to the Metacrisis

Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis, Webinar

An introduction to the Metacrisis by Daniel Schmachtenberger, founding member of The Consilience Project. Moderated by Niklas Adalberth, founder of Norrsken Foundation. Recorded live during Stockholm Impact/Week 2023....

Deep Survival: Who lives, who dies, and why

Deep Survival: Who lives, who dies, and why

Oct 10, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction, Polycrisis

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 narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals on how to take control of stress, learn to assess risk, and make better decisions under pressure.

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

Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis

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 — may be a blip in human history.

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