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...
by Omega | Nov 21, 2024 | Economy
The figures reflect the full cost of extreme weather rather than the share scientists can attribute to climate breakdown. They come as world leaders argue over how much rich countries should pay to help poor countries clean up their economies, adapt to a hotter world...
by Sam Eberle | Nov 20, 2024 | Books, Nonfiction
A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberationWhen the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their...
by Omega | Nov 20, 2024 | Resilience
‘Risks on the Horizon’ is designed to arm policymakers and risk managers with insights needed to navigate and influence the multiple potential futures that lie ahead. In an age marked by systemic polycrises such as pandemics, climate events, and...
by Omega | Nov 19, 2024 | Resilience
Global catastrophic and existential risks hold the potential to threaten human civilization. Addressing these risks is crucial for ensuring humans’ long-term survival and flourishing. Motivated by the gravity of these risks, Congress passed the Global...
by Omega | Nov 19, 2024 | Environment
For decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis has obsessively documented the dark side of the Golden state – its wildfires, earthquakes, megalomaniac real estate developers and violent police departments. In essays like The Case for Letting Malibu...
by Omega | Nov 16, 2024 | Worldviews
The social world doesn’t work how we pretend it does. Too often, we are led to believe it is a structured, ordered system defined by clear rules and patterns. The economy, apparently, runs on supply-and-demand curves. Politics is a science. Even human beliefs can be...
by Omega | Nov 15, 2024 | Polycrisis
This article, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of The Foundation Review, invites readers to ponder the risks posed by the polycrisis and how philanthropy might look beyond business as usual to respond to those risks. We review the evolution of philanthropic...
by Omega | Nov 14, 2024 | Environment
We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. For many years, scientists,...
by Omega | Nov 12, 2024 | Pandemics
Malaria infection rates are soaring in Ethiopia, where a combination of armed conflict, climate change and mosquitoes’ growing resistance to drugs and insecticides has accelerated the spread of a disease the country once thought it was bringing under control. More...
