by Omega | Dec 14, 2023 | Environment
As climate change worsens, extreme events like these are becoming more frequent and intense. In 2023, record-breaking heat waves, floods, wildfires and cyclones besieged parts of almost every continent. Yet most communities remain ill prepared for a climate-altered...
by Omega | Dec 11, 2023 | Environment
And while many experts have been cautious about acknowledging it, there is increasing evidence that global warming has accelerated over the past 15 years rather than continued at a gradual, steady pace. That acceleration means that the effects of climate change we are...
by Omega | Dec 11, 2023 | Environment
Picture the scene: Extreme weather events and natural disasters linked to the changing climate begin to occur with greater frequency and severity. This series of major weather events leads to a below average crop yield for major producers. The scarcity of staples...
by Omega | Dec 6, 2023 | Environment
“Half of the fossil fuels ever used on planet Earth by human beings has been consumed in just the last 35 years. This is the power of exponential growth. So hugely important things have happened in 50 years, including the first book that warned us of limits to growth....
by Omega | Dec 6, 2023 | Resilience
“People who are resisting as an everyday act of resistance against injustice,oppression, patriarchy, occupation, is a beautiful act of humanity” Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour from Palestine Read full paper in Global Tapestries of Alternatives
by Omega | Dec 6, 2023 | Environment
The geophysical, hydrological, and ecological consequences of the Russia‐Ukraine war for the major rivers and water infrastructure in Ukraine are addressed here, focused on the dams and reservoirs of the Dnipro (Dnieper) River and major tributaries, up to and...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2023 | Polycrisis
Juncker’s observation that the polycrisis creates ‘doubt and uncertainty’ is both correct and disingenuous: while this analysis recognises the sense of doubt that pervades the planet, it then fails to offer anything that resembles an explanation for the emergence of...
by Omega | Oct 15, 2023 | Economy
The current economic situation in Argentina is dire: Year-over-year inflation is at 115 percent, and the peso is under constant depreciation. The unemployment rate sits at 7 percent, while almost 40 percent of the country’s population lives in poverty. Soup kitchens...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Economy
In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “Tragedy of the Horizon.” The concept was simple: climate change creates tremendous risk for financial markets, but these mounting risks are ignored by investors due to the...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction, Polycrisis
By Graham Leicester and Maureen O’Hara In normal times we tend to go about our lives oblivious to the structures, institutions, processes and shared values that shape our behaviours. In powerful times like ours, deep structures of love, power and justice are...
