by Omega | Jun 10, 2025 | Politics
One common theme on the left is the idea of the exhaustion of the future. Mark Fisher articulated the idea forcefully in his writing about the “cancellation of the future”. More recently, the political theorist Jonathan White has warned of the exhaustion of the future...
by Omega | May 14, 2025 | Polycrisis
Our world shows signs of multi-systemic breakdown. In this context, polycrisis names an entanglement of interconnected crises that affect one another. Metacrisis, by contrast, identifies foundational conditions that generate these crises. Just as symptoms signal an...
by Omega | May 9, 2025 | Environment
The pervasive narrative surrounding the ecological transition in advanced liberal democracies, particularly in France, has hit a brutal reckoning with reality. Far from a smooth, technocratically managed glide path towards sustainability, the transition project is...
by Omega | May 2, 2025 | Resilience
This handbook explains how to read and draw a causal loop diagrams (CLD)–a systems mapping technique that helps us to think through our mental model of a system, increase our understanding of a system, and communicate our knowledge to others. It clarifies some common...
by Omega | May 1, 2025 | Worldviews
Finally, it’s important to acknowledge the ways in which retrenchment of global health research and support is in keeping with attacks on health research and higher education more generally. The retraction of NIH grants, for example, has jolted U.S. academic medical...
by Omega | May 1, 2025 | Environment
The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is...
by Omega | Apr 30, 2025 | Environment
In a world where the globalized economy has failed to bring peace and prosperity, many of us are feeling the call to reconnect – with each other, with place, and with the living systems that sustain us. Now more than ever, there is a growing need to root our...
by Omega | Apr 29, 2025 | Politics
Already, Canadians in every walk of life are discussing privately how they’re prepared to protect our homeland. True, in any violent contest between Canada and the U.S., we can’t possibly win in a conventional sense. But we can ensure in advance that an authoritarian,...
by Omega | Apr 28, 2025 | Environment
In the future, real communities – people near you who can actually help you reliably access food, water, warmth, electricity, repairs, early warnings against disasters, etc – will again become increasingly important. Our future will be in part ever newer, as we enter...
by Omega | Apr 25, 2025 | Environment
“A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it,...
