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...
by Omega | Jul 25, 2024 | Economy
A sea-change sweeps across philanthropic landscapes today. Critiques of philanthropy, especially in its newer iterations of philanthrocapitalism, consider its colonial legacies, its deleterious effects on minorities, and the reinforcement of a politics of domination....
by Omega | Jul 25, 2024 | Economy
In 2023, the U.S. set an annual oil (crude oil + condensate) production rate record of 12.927 million barrels/day (mb/d) according to the U.S. Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration (U.S. DOE/EIA or EIA). I’ve heard numerous media commentators...
