The Long View
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There was a time not long ago when disasters would strike one at
a time, and communities would have time to recover and rebuild.
Today, however, there is a new normal regarding disasters, one in
which most do not occur as isolated events and instead seem to pile
on one another, often unleashing new devastation on a community
before it has had a chance to recover from the prior disaster.
In this Omega conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is in conversation with Richard Heinberg from the Post Carbon Institute.
Words on optimism from Kevin Kelly, the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable.
The problems philanthropy seeks to remedy are big, messy, and complicated. Yet far too often, we try to combat them with simple responses.
Dr. David Korowicz, a physicist and human systems ecologist, discusses anticipatory preparedness and resilience.
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.
SGY
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