by Omega | Aug 12, 2024 | Politics
The attack line from the Republicans is predictable: Kamala Harris was Biden’s border tsar. The crisis on the border with Mexico shows that she failed. So too is the response from the Democrats: No, the vice-president never was in charge of the border. Her role was to...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Pandemics
The authors cited studies suggesting that only 7 percent to 10 percent of long Covid patients fully recovered two years after developing long Covid. They added that “some manifestations of long Covid, including heart disease, diabetes, myalgic encephalomyelitis and...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Economy
From the personal, community, and overall economic perspective, the catastrophic financial risk of climate change should not be underestimated. As Americans are abandoned by insurers, and elected representatives continue to willfully ignore the underlying problem to...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Pandemics
The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans rising as it...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Polycrisis
The document identifies eight “critical shifts” — emerging issues and potential threats that could amplify, accelerate and synchronize the polycrisis. These disruptive changes include the ongoing devastation of the natural world, competition for global resources,...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Pandemics
Self-reported anxiety and depression have declined from the peak they reached in November 2020, when 42.6 percent of adults said they had symptoms, according to the Household Pulse Survey, a Census Bureau tool that measures well-being. Since then, that figure has...
by Omega | Aug 10, 2024 | Worldviews
In this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Nate to take a wide-boundary look at the true environmental risks embedded within the current promises of artificial intelligence. He demonstrates that the current trajectory of AI’s impact is headed towards ecological...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2024 | Pandemics
Science is humanity’s best insurance against threats from nature, but it is a fragile enterprise that must be nourished and protected. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2. Yet, the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in...
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...
