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...
by Omega | Nov 8, 2024 | Resilience
Central to Krznaric’s insight is that our resilience – the ability to prevent, withstand, adapt, and recover thriving after adversity — is co-created, shared and built through the collective wisdom, resources, knowledge, and action of people...
by Omega | Nov 7, 2024 | Environment
We, the undersigned, are scientists working in the field of climate research and feel it isurgent to draw the attention of the Nordic Council of Ministers to the serious risk of amajor ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. A string of scientific studies in the...
by Omega | Nov 6, 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....
