by Omega | Dec 16, 2023 | Environment
Theories of breakdown driven by climate change have proliferated in recent years, encouraged by the likes of Jared Diamond’s 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The Roman Empire, for example, unraveled during a spasm of volcanic explosions,...
by Omega | Dec 16, 2023 | Environment
The teams of workers wrapped in white plastic suits stand out against a charred landscape as they pick through the toxic ash and debris that remain after Hawaii’s worst wildfire ripped through the historic town of Lahaina. When it was over, more than 1,700 buildings...
by Omega | Dec 16, 2023 | Environment
The world is a complex place, and some countries are always doing better or worse than others. But occasionally, as was the case with the Great Depression and World War II, the whole world seems to falter or erupt at once. If the pattern I think I see is really there,...
by Omega | Dec 16, 2023 | Environment
An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years. Phys.org Read full article in...
by Omega | Dec 16, 2023 | Resilience
To cut a long story short, the nose has never been for me anything apart from a site of disgust and discomfort. Given such a backdrop, it became a challenge to overcome repugnance and be able to feed mother who was discharged from the hospital with a polyvinyl...
by Omega | Dec 15, 2023 | Polycrisis
The ruckus the term has sparked, though, suggests it’s tapping some irksome truths. One is the assertion — implicit in the notion of polycrisis — that what’s happening today is essentially new. This idea particularly vexes critics on the political center or right,...
by Omega | Dec 15, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction
Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities: climate change and mass extinction, energy supply shocks, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and...
by Omega | Dec 14, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction
A Plan to Fix a Fractured World Three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an...
by Omega | Dec 14, 2023 | Environment
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that...
by Omega | Dec 14, 2023 | Environment
BY W. S. MERWIN Gray whaleNow that we are sending you to The EndThat great godTell himThat we who follow you invented forgivenessAnd forgive nothing I write as though you could understandAnd I could say itOne must always pretend somethingAmong the dyingWhen you have...
