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Crazy Town: Episode 65. Why the polycrisis is a statistical anomaly: The willful delusions of the world’s leading pseudointellectual

Mar 23, 2023 | Polycrisis

Meet Steven Pinker, whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment.

Why Peru’s crisis is worth studying closely by democracies everywhere

Mar 16, 2023 | Worldviews

by José Carlos Agüero, The Washington Post…Ever since Peruvian President Pedro Castillo’s failed power grab exactly three months ago, protests have been roiling the country almost every single day.

Dancing with systems from the Donella Meadows Project

Mar 16, 2023 | Environment, Uncategorized

People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake.

The barefoot guide to coping with floods by HOMEF

Mar 16, 2023 | Environment

The steps in the guide are not just imaginably practicable but have been applied by several flood-impacted communities. In other words, from the knowledge of community people applied during their flood experience and other documented steps for coping with floods, this guide comes.

The world at a turning point. Will philanthropy rise to the task of the moment? by Briggs Bomba in Alliance Magazine

The world at a turning point. Will philanthropy rise to the task of the moment? by Briggs Bomba in Alliance Magazine

Mar 16, 2023 | Economy

In a recent statement, the IMF announced that one-third of the world economy is expected to be in recession in 2023, further adding that ‘it would feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people’, even for countries not in recession.

Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing wealth in the time of collapse

Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing wealth in the time of collapse

Mar 9, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction, Resilience

Post Capitalist Philanthropy takes us on a journey from the history of wealth accumulation to the current logic of late-stage capitalism to the lived possibilities for other ways of knowing, sensing and being that can usher in life-centric models.

The Displacements

The Displacements

Feb 28, 2023 | Books, Fiction, Polycrisis

As 'The Displacements' slows down and sinks into the frustrations of life in a massive relief camp, the story recalls the Houston Astrodome after Katrina — except that here we witness what one character sardonically labels a 'catastrophe of...

The permaweird

The permaweird

Feb 27, 2023 | Worldviews

The Last Men at the End of History cannot sustain any sense of collective urgency for any length of time at the important scales. And mere individual or even tribal actions do nothing to alleviate the sense of collective, even universal, crisis-in-waiting. The world is now too complex for that to work.

Why the world feels so unstable right now

Why the world feels so unstable right now

Feb 27, 2023 | Worldviews

For many of us, life seems to progress smoothly and predictably for much of the time. Indeed, it seems one of our biggest concerns appears to be getting stuck in a rut. But then, seemingly out of nowhere, our world is turned upside down.

Global risks report 2023

Global risks report 2023

Feb 21, 2023 | Economy

Some of the risks described in this year’s report are close to a tipping point. This is the moment to act collectively, decisively and with a long-term lens to shape a pathway to a more positive, inclusive and stable world.

From Bing to Sydney

From Bing to Sydney

Feb 21, 2023 | Worldviews

I’m not going to lie: having Bing say I am not a good person was an incredible experience (and for the record, I think this is another example of chatbot misinformation!). It also, to say the least, seems incredibly ill-suited to being a search engine.

Greta Thunberg: ‘the world is getting more grim by the day’

Greta Thunberg: ‘the world is getting more grim by the day’

Feb 21, 2023 | Environment

There is genuinely no precedent in the modern history of geopolitics for the climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Pakistan on the brink: what the collapse of the nuclear-armed regional power could mean for the world

Pakistan on the brink: what the collapse of the nuclear-armed regional power could mean for the world

Feb 21, 2023 | Worldviews

It is hard to overstate the difficulty of Pakistan’s current situation. An unfortunate string of recent events combined with chronic mismanagement has created a potentially mortal threat to Pakistan’s political system.

Bangladesh is a global pioneer in preparing for climate migrants

Bangladesh is a global pioneer in preparing for climate migrants

Feb 21, 2023 | Resilience

Climate change may be a global phenomenon, but its impacts are felt locally. So it follows that solutions to this global crisis also have to be local.

Why understanding limits is the key to humanity’s future

Why understanding limits is the key to humanity’s future

Feb 21, 2023 | Resilience

Why have many people become obsessed with either denying or overcoming limits, to the point where they appear to feel that life can have meaning only if it’s tied to some limitless thing, quality, or substance?

Whose polycrisis?

Whose polycrisis?

Feb 21, 2023 | Polycrisis

Unless the Polycrisis seriously questions the drivers of power and finds ways of challenging them, it risks becoming yet another neoliberal policy buzzword.

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