by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis
The global human population has been climbing for the past two centuries. But what is normal for all of us alive today — growing up while the world is growing rapidly — may be a blip in human history. Dean Spears Read the full article by Dean Spears in the New York...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis
Human actions have pushed the world into the danger zone on several key indicators of planetary health, threatening to trigger dramatic changes in conditions on Earth, according to a new analysis from 29 scientists in eight countries. Laura Paddison Read the full...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Polycrisis
Apocalyptic visions are dominated by fire. The Bible prophesizes sinners being cast into a lake of flame. Nostradamus predicted fire from the sky. Manhattan Project scientists worried that the atomic bomb would set the entire atmosphere ablaze. But this year has been...
by Omega | Oct 10, 2023 | Culture
Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories David Robson Read the full article by David Robson in The Guardian
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Environment
Geoff Mann on Uncertainty and Climate Change The point of highlighting the vertiginous degree of uncertainty is that we might not be making nearly as big a deal of climate change as we should. We are, as a result, tragically under-prepared for the possibility of...
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Polycrisis
Crisis is a fascinating character, and we hope to keep talking, but the task in this post is merely to understand the idea well enough to grasp my main contention here, which is that meta, not poly, should be our prefix of choice. These prefixes that seek to qualify...
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Environment
Global warming is projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, throwing lifelong activist Andrew Boyd into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the “impossible news” of climate breakdown. With gallows humor and a broken heart, Andrew steers us...
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Polycrisis
Experts now agree that the planet has entered an era of ongoing ‘polycrisis’, in which society faces multiple, interconnected global threats, including the climate crisis and mass biodiversity extinction, geopolitical instability and nuclear threat, risks of unchecked...
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Environment
Marine mammals have been my poetry teachers for several years now. In Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals, I documented my awe and wonder at how these animals do, with grace, what I flail at every day, breathing in the unbreathable circumstances...
by Omega | Sep 14, 2023 | Environment
The world is experiencing a surge in extremely hot days that put human health at risk, with the threat concentrated in some of theplaces least prepared to cope, according to an analysis of climate data byThe Washington Post and CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that develops...
