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The FAN Initiative, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere, The Resilience Project & The New School at Commonwealth
Ghastly Discussions & Response
Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement
Multiple global crises—including the pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s war on Ukraine—have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood. Dr. Michael Lawrence, a Fellow at the Cascade Institute Read...
A philosophy of crisis – Miguel de Beistegui
The term "crisis" gets banded about with ease these days, in fact some have argues that we are living through an era of polycrisis, with more than one crisis going on simultaneously. But with its origins in Ancient Greek medicin, what does the term "crisis" really...
AI and democratic publics
In this paper, we argue that the existing paradigm of democracy driving scholarship about its relationship to AI highlights the wrong questions. The essay describes this broad paradigm—which emphasizes the benefits of deliberation and sortition—and explains why it is...
Introducing Noema VI: Paradigm shifts
The disclosure of climate change as a destabilizing consequence of human endeavor was enabled in the first place by planetary-scale computation. This capacity holds out the evolutionary prospect that human, machine and Earth intelligence might one day merge into a...
Bioregional coordination: Sacred work in a time between worlds
We stand at the threshold between worlds. The old empire is composting itself. In this sacred transition, bioregional coordination offers a path toward life-affirming civilization—but only if we learn to weave traditional institutions and emergent network commons into...
Reframing the future
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence, the compounding realities of ecological crises, and the evolving ways we create and preserve knowledge — all of these call us to think differently about our place in time and how we frame the future. Patrick Down Read...
Resilience science must-knows:Â A road to action for decision-makers
With global temperatures still rising and disruption becoming the new normal, we need real, practical solutions for resilience and adaptation. The good news is there is a wealth of research on resilience. But much of it is unknown for decision-makers or hard for them...
Resilience revisited 014: Beyond the binary of “Resilience is Resistance” – Imagining resilience as oscillation
Rachel Donald's recent @PlanetCritical conversation with Max Wilbert titled "Resilience is Resistance," captures a profound truth about how communities defend themselves while building alternatives. After reading Imbolo Mbue's "How Beautiful We Were," I was struck by...
The world economy is on the brink of epochal change
The world economy is like a supercomputer that churns through trillions of calculations of prices and quantities, and spits out information on incomes, wealth, profits, and jobs. This is effectively how capitalism works—as a highly efficient information-processing...
Why is ChatGPT telling people to email me?
Journalists depend on tipsters: people who observe something noteworthy, or experience it, and alert the media. Some of the technology investigations I’ve worked hardest on in the past — on facial recognition technology and online slander — started with tips in my...
Dimensions of the Great Turning
The work of the Great Turning, which is vast and complex, clusters naturally into three areas, or dimensions. Perhaps you can locate your own efforts in one or more of these dimensions? Reflecting on the dimensions may also illuminate where you are called to serve....
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Paul R. Ehrlich, Andrew Beattie, Gerardo Ceballos, Eileen Crist, Joan Diamond,Rodolfo Dirzo, Anne H. Ehrlich, John Harte, Mary Ellen Harte, Graham Pyke, Peter H. Raven1 William J. Ripple, Frédérik Saltré Christine Turnbull, Mathis Wackernagel and Daniel T. Blumstei
An international group of 17 leading physical and social scientists, including OMEGA Advisory Board member Joan Diamond, have produced a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the state of civilization, warning that the outlook is more dire and dangerous than is generally understood.
The paper has generated over a thousand media articles and interviews which suggests that public interest is extremely high despite competing news– insurrection, inauguration, and pandemic.
This Ghastly study has been covered in media organizations including CNN World, Reuters, The Guardian, International Business Times, Taipei Times, The Irish Times, and the University of California among many others.
See full article published by Frontiers in Conservation Science, 13 Janurary 2021.