by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Polycrisis
To report the news in the current global moment is to observe a world incrisis. Multiple, cascading risks mark our times, intersecting with each otherin ways that amplify their seriousness, and underscore planetary precarity.Climate change, (un)natural disasters,...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Environment
Promising to reimagine what a climate-resilient city of the future could look like, the project has been dubbed “NEOM,” referencing the Ancient Greek prefix “neo,” meaning new. The “m” refers to “mustaqbal,” an Arabic word for “future.” The mega-city—an initiative...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Environment
Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a break-neck pace. Accompanying this is an almost frenzied optimism that AI will fix our most pressing global problems, particularly when it comes to the hype surrounding climate solutions. In this episode, I’m joined by...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Pandemics
It’s a major wave now, with an estimated new 900,000 infections per day, as my friend Jay Weiland estimated based on the 2 sources of US wastewater data (definitely worth following him at X or Threads). The slope of rise of SARS-CoV-2 levels is still steep, so we...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Pandemics
Long Covid is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection and is present for at least 3 months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems. E. Wesley Ely, M.D.,...
by Omega | Aug 1, 2024 | Economy
From the vantage of the American supermarket aisle, the modern food system looks like a kind of miracle. Everything has been carefully cultivated for taste and convenience — even those foods billed as organic or heirloom — and produce regarded as exotic luxuries just...
by Omega | Aug 1, 2024 | Economy
The purpose of scenario development is preparation, not prediction. This readying benefits any eventualities, beyond the handful of future scenarios imagined. As we evaluate the opportunities and risks from our scenarios, we scrutinize their potential...
by Omega | Jul 26, 2024 | Environment
“Every year, there are a number of natural disasters that affect many people. Even if you are not directly affected, the television coverage of these events can be scary, especially to young children,” he said. “Several years ago, we featured a weeklong story about a...
by Omega | Jul 26, 2024 | Environment
Oak supports PLAAS with the Living Landscapes course as part of our Wildlife, Conservation, and Trade Subprogramme. This sub-programme falls under our Environment Programme, which recognises that wild places are a natural system that protects the wildlife and supports...
by Omega | Jul 25, 2024 | Polycrisis
At the very root of the challenges we face is a dying cultural paradigm: Modernity. The modernera was itself a period of extraordinary human achievement and advance, initiated by a culturalRenaissance or rebirth. However like any paradigm, modernity casts a long...
