Reflections on the inner challenges of a ghastly future
Birju Pandya’s response to the article Underestimating the Challenge of a Ghstly Future
Commanding Hope
This was my starting place for polycrisis reading and I was pleasantly surprised by how optimistic and engaging it was. I got the audio version and walked many miles with this uplifting book. If you want to wrap your head around these troubling times without and skip the doom & gloom, start here.
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We’re living in a global polycrisis: It’s time to build resiliency
Transport stalls and stores are not restocked. An already overstrained health system drops more services. The science points to more of these breakdowns – and, let’s be clear, there is no credible dissent to the science. In this light, isn’t it time to prepare for it “just in case”?
Ministry For The Future
Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to advocate for the world’s future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present generation’s.
Innovation and crisis: Is our fight against COVID-19 a critical juncture?
The COVID-19 pandemic is widely seen as a potential turning point after which almost everything could be different. But how much?
Resilience: Living beyond fear with the Coronavirus
The first thing to overcome with the coronavirus is fear.
What happens in Texas, won’t stay in Texas
Dozens have died, regions of Texas are still without power, and millions are facing the long-term cascading impacts of extreme weather, systemic inequity, and crumbling infrastructure. This entirely predictable (and predicted) tragedy is yet another example of the polycrisis made visible.
Notes from a 1.2C world: Thoughts stimulated by the “Underestimating he Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future” paper
Laurie Laybourn-Langton’s response to the paper The Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future paper.
Education, empowerment, employment and economics: Tools for building a promising future
Dr. Ashok Khosla stands almost alone in the world in his leadership of the modern environmental movement. His wisdom, creativity, and humility rooted in his great compassion and respect for all humanity, as well as his Ph.D. in experimental physics, have been a source of sustenance and hope for the poorest of the poor and the most discouraged and determined of the more fortunate.
Love in a ghastly time
How do we organise around love but not exclude organizing around what enrages us, around what is unjust?
The human predicament in 2020: Interacting global crises and the new normal
Many fear that a broader systems collapse could be a plausible scenario. Given what we know, how do we respond?
The world that food made with Raj Patel
In this Omega Conversation, Shorey Meyers speaks with Raj Patel, an award-winning author, film-maker and academic.
Navigating a path between fantasy & doom
In this Omega Conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is joined by Nate Hagens.
Nate Hagens: The state of the species 2020
Nate Hagens, Director of EnergyandOurFuture.org, covers the state of the economy, environment and human cultural situation in the face of the recent Coronavirus.
Agroecology & the reconstruction of post-COVID 19 agriculture & food systems
In this Omega Conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is joined by agroecologist Miguel Altieri.