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...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience
We’ve had a summer from hell, with July 2023 temporarily claiming the title of hottest month on record. But while the klaxons of Earth’s climate system have riveted nearly everyone’s attention, something else is silently happening to us and other species that could...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience
In this story, Idah Murithi shares a captivating tale of a young girl’s journey to restore a river and educate her community about the power of collective action in safeguarding natural resources. This is one of the five winning stories from the Resilience...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Resilience
The race against time to plan for climate migration has begun. In 2022, climate change and climate-related disasters led nearly 33 million people to flee their homes and accounted for over half of all new numbers of people displaced within their countries, according...
