by Omega | Oct 22, 2024 | Polycrisis
As our global polycrisis escalates, we face multiple and systemic challenges—from the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, pandemics, and the cost-of-living crisis, to the rise in conflicts, biological weapons, AI, and threats to democracy. Ruth Richardson Read full...
by Omega | Oct 22, 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 | Oct 22, 2024 | Environment
The new UK government has initiated a Strategic Defence Review and is undertaking a review of national resilience. Security threats resulting from climate change should be at the core of the government’s approach. These threats have been consistently and significantly...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2024 | Resilience
Our planet is deeply marked and influenced by our presence. Scientists argue we have entered the Anthropocene, a geological epoch where there are now so many of us, using so many resources that we are disrupting the whole planet’s nutrient and energy flows...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2024 | Environment
Something’s shifted. And it’s not just the climate. Even before being named a tropical storm, I knew that what would become Mean Helene was set on a mission to be yet another multibillion-dollar disaster. I knew that it would undergo rapid intensification and become a...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2024 | Resilience
As I argued in that note and in earlier comments on Finance-Fiction and the dollar system, a sense of unease and imbalance easily spawns the idea that this must resolve itself in some way. History will deliver that resolution. After a period of tension, the dissonance...
by Omega | Sep 24, 2024 | Worldviews
Humans are good learners and teachers, constantly gathering information, archiving, and sharing knowledge. So why, after building the most sophisticated information technology in history, are we on the verge of destroying ourselves? We know more than ever before. But...
by Omega | Sep 24, 2024 | Environment
Typhoons triggered landslides across Southeast Asia and inundated Shanghai. A slow-moving storm, unusual for this time of year, sent a deluge over Central Europe. Months of floods wore on in northern and central Africa as rain continued to fall on landscapes that are...
by Omega | Sep 18, 2024 | Worldviews
Now feels like a good time to lay out where we are with AI, and what might come next. I want to focus purely on the capabilities of AI models, and specifically the Large Language Models that power chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. These models keep getting “smarter”...
by Omega | Sep 18, 2024 | Resilience
This is a report about our individual and organizational capacity to incite change. It explores how we assess and respond to systemic risks and outlines pragmatic next steps for decision-makers in policy, finance, and philanthropy and at the community level. Shaped by...
