by Omega | Dec 28, 2024 | Resilience
Networks for the aggregation and distribution of local and regional produce were commonplace only a century ago, but many were dismantled during the process of economic globalization. One group that’s been trying to bring theirs back is the Belgian Transition...
by Omega | Dec 27, 2024 | Environment
The consequences of climate change, nature loss, and other changes to the Earth system will impact societies’ ability to tackle the causes of these problems. There are extensive agendas of study and action on the risks resulting from changes in the Earth system....
by Omega | Dec 26, 2024 | Culture
On April 16, 2024, the website of the Future of Humanity Institute was replaced by a simple landing page and a four-paragraph statement. The institute had closed down, the statement explained, after 19 years. It briefly sketched the institute’s history, appraised its...
by Omega | Dec 21, 2024 | Economy
Aware of the power of platform firms and the risks of the platform economy, governments are reconsidering the dominant laissez faire approach in favour of strategies that regulate the power of platform firms. transnational dynamics play an important role in shaping...
by Omega | Dec 20, 2024 | Worldviews
In 2025, we will see AI and machine learning begin to amplify the impact of Crispr genome editing in medicine, agriculture, climate change, and the basic research that underpins these fields. It’s worth saying upfront that the field of AI is awash with big promises...
by Omega | Dec 20, 2024 | Environment
Through my own formative influences and reflections, I am now convinced that if we want to deal with climate change we need a kind of figure/ground reversal. For decades now climate campaigners have often talked as if the world’s other issues have to be held constant...
by Omega | Dec 19, 2024 | Politics
America’s top cybersecurity and law enforcement officials made a coordinated push Tuesday to raise awareness about cyber threats from foreign actors in the wake of an intrusion of U.S. telecom equipment dubbed Salt Typhoon. The hackers are linked to the Chinese...
by Omega | Dec 19, 2024 | Environment
Of the eight planets and 293 moons that call our solar system home, only Earth has a surface that sloshes with liquid water. Roughly 71% of the face of our world is covered in seas, lakes, rivers, and oceans, serving as the elixir for more than three billion years of...
by Omega | Dec 19, 2024 | Worldviews
In spite of current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of...
by Omega | Dec 18, 2024 | Politics
In the post-election blame game, progressives have been a favorite target of the center who want to pin the Democratic debacle on left-wing overreach. Now one of the stories pundits like Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith are telling is that the mean left-wingers alienated...
