by Adam Tooze in Chartbook….Since 2015, the push to raise the world’s population out of the direst deprivation, has stagnated. As the World Bank authors acknowledge, we are “facing a lost decade in the fight against global poverty”.
New paper: Polycrisis Research & Action Roadmap
by the Cascade Institute, et al….The authors define the core characteristics of polycrisis
(emergent harms, multiple causes, deep uncertainty, systemic context, and new knowledge and action) and
identify gaps, opportunities, and priorities across four dimensions (theoretical foundations, empirical
research, practical applications, community building).
Crazy Town: Episode 74. Prepping for the apocalypse: Elites’ foolish fantasies for surviving a collapse of their own creation
by Asher Miller, et al., in podcast Crazy Town: Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit artist who helps capitalists survive the apocalypse with beans, bullets, and bravado. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Welcome to the “End Times”: Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse
by Paul Rosenberg in Salon…..Peter Turchin predicted major instability in the 2020s. Unless we address inequality, he says, it will get worse
What is Neom? Home to The Line at Saudi Arabia’s megacity
Plans for a new smart city, called The Line, in Neom are part of the 2030 Vision to embrace a new economic era in the kingdom
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
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Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people
By Lizzy Davies in The Guardian….War in Ukraine and Pakistan’s ‘monsoon on steroids’ among events driving surge on ‘scale never seen before’ as 71m people displaced
Artificial Intelligence and The superorganism
Nate Hagens interviews Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Great Simplification….What is the role of intelligence vs wisdom on our current global pathway, and can we change course? Does artificial intelligence have a role to play in creating a more stable system or will it be the tipping point that drives our current one out of control?
Elon Musk and others call for pause on A.I., citing ‘profound risks to society’
More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems.
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The age of AI has begun
Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet.
The 12 paradigm shifts that are changing our world: Peter Leyden and Gerd Leonhard
Peter Leyden and Gerd Leonhard take a closer look at a dozen of the most important paradigm shifts of the 2020s that everyone should better understand.
Noam Chomsky: The false promise of ChatGPT
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Beyond fed up: six hard trends that lead to food system breakdown.
Trends suggest that even radical policies could only
delay, not avert, a tragedy from disrupted food supplies.
Blue foods can help solve multiple global challenges
Blue foods – fish, shellfish, algae and aquatic plants – can be instrumental in solving multiple global crises, new analysis shows.
Inside the dissident fringe, where the new right meets the far left, and everyone’s bracing for apocalypse
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Dancing with systems from the Donella Meadows Project
People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake.
The case for philanthropy to step up with an intersectional approach
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Nate Hagens Keynote Address, 2019 Resilience Gathering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=MNzLkdr7UIU&feature=emb_imp_woyt The Resilience Gathering The New School at Commonweal hosted The Resilience Gathering, including keynote speaker Nate Hagens. We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is...