by Omega | Jan 31, 2025 | Resilience
As a new year dawns, it’s hard not to feel anxiety about what’s coming next, especially when it comes to American democracy. At times like these, one can feel the urge to check out or hunker down, to turn inward. But it’s important to remember that all this flux and...
by Omega | Jan 31, 2025 | Polycrisis
2024 often felt manic, with assassination attempts on Donald Trump, war in the Middle East and the implosion of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. But there’s no reason to think 2025 will be any calmer. That’s not just because Trump is likely to preside over a...
by Omega | Jan 30, 2025 | Economy
In the dystopian drama The Last of Us, a fungal virus has spread through foodstuffs turning infected humans into zombies. The survivors live in ghettos, among the ruins, armed to avoid a gruesome living death. They grow their own food to avoid the infected...
by Omega | Jan 28, 2025 | Resilience
That’s what a coaching client told me recently when discussing the stress of recent years and our uncertain future. The future has always been uncertain and always will be—yet we humans crave safety. Rather than trying to control circumstances and events for...
by Omega | Jan 28, 2025 | Economy
The next casualty of the epic Los Angeles fires, appropriately, will be the casualty industry. What has gotten immediate press attention is the impact of the fires on local homeowners and on the California state insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan, which only...
by Omega | Jan 27, 2025 | Politics
In the wake of Trump’s reelection, many of us on the progressive left are reevaluating our work. We’re taking a hard look at the campaigns and movements we’ve given our lives to and asking ourselves, where did we go wrong? I’ve especially seen this humility from the...
by Omega | Jan 24, 2025 | Environment
North American forests are experiencing unprecedented challenges due to extreme wildfires, pathogen andinsect outbreaks, heat stress, drought, rapid development, and invasive species. Exacerbated by climatechange, these threats collectively diminish cultural values,...
by Omega | Jan 24, 2025 | Pandemics
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth. The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that...
by Omega | Jan 23, 2025 | Environment
I ask the question, “is the world becoming uninsurable?” not as an expert on the insurance industry but as a homeowner who can no longer obtain hurricane insurance, and as an observer of long-term trends keenly interested in the way global risks pile up...
by Omega | Jan 22, 2025 | Environment
One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was on fire. Oregon had declared a statewide wildfire state of emergency through September. California was grappling with the Park Fire, the...
