by Omega | Dec 12, 2024 | Politics
Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide. Jon Henley, et al. Read...
by Omega | Dec 11, 2024 | Economy
Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn’t a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported In that report — published in the bestselling book “The Limits to...
by Omega | Dec 11, 2024 | Resilience
The US has always urged its citizens to be in a permanent state of alert for ideological and material threats Robert Kirsch Read full article by Robert Kirsch in Psyche
by Omega | Nov 29, 2024 | Environment
We are seeing a growing acknowledgement of the importance of trees to combat (and mitigate the impacts of) the climate crisis — including within our cities. However, a series of structural problems inherent in our urban forestry management processes are working...
by Omega | Nov 28, 2024 | Politics
In the seven observations & reflections below I offer some of my own initial sensemaking as part of a broader conversation happening now. These points reflect my own experiences from a viewpoint of awareness-based systems change: the idea that for deep change to...
by Omega | Nov 27, 2024 | Environment
The year of 2023 was the warmest on record globally and the second warmest in Europe. Here we applied epidemiological models to temperature and mortality records in 823 contiguous regions from 35 countries to estimate sex- and age-specific heat-related mortality in...
by Omega | Nov 26, 2024 | Polycrisis
History is often told as a story of turbulence, and there have been periods, even in recent memory, of wider and more brutal warfare, genocide, violent revolution, and political repression. But what distinguishes this period in human history is the confluence of...
by Omega | Nov 26, 2024 | Resilience
Two months ago, what should have been a routine software update by a security company, CrowdStrike, crashed millions of computers around the world running Microsoft Windows. Airlines grounded flights. Subways stopped. Operators of 911 lines couldn’t dispatch help....
by Omega | Nov 23, 2024 | Environment
During his first time around as president, Donald Trump rolled back a bevy of environmental rules, withdrew from the Paris Agreement, and boosted the fossil fuel industry. In his second term, the president-elect is expected to be downright hostile toward clean energy...
by Omega | Nov 22, 2024 | Worldviews
Prepping – I’m coming round to it. I’ve had Prepare, the old government website that Oliver Dowden launched this spring, open on my laptop in a quivering tab for a while now, and this week I’ve been dipping in every now and then to remind myself of “how to prepare for...
