by Omega | Jul 31, 2023 | Environment
The severe economic and financial consequences of climate change are clear, particularly given the enormous shortfall to date in spending on adapting to what is to come. Creon Butler Read full article by Creon Butler in ChathamHouse.org
by Omega | Jul 31, 2023 | Polycrisis
By exposing the ways that different societies have reacted to crises over their lifetime, this framework can help identify the factors and complex social-ecological interactions that either bolster or undermine resilience to contemporary climate shocks. Daniel Hoyer...
by Omega | Jul 24, 2023 | Polycrisis
Peter Turchin’s latest book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, is receiving glowing reviews. Its message is highly relevant to our collective understanding of the emerging global polycrisis and what needs to be...
by Omega | Jul 19, 2023 | Environment
Exposure to extreme heat can damage the central nervous system, the brain and other vital organs, and the effects can set in with terrifying speed, resulting in heat exhaustion, heat cramps or heatstroke. It also exacerbates existing medical conditions such as...
by Omega | Jul 19, 2023 | Environment
I refined that list down to 40 distinct and near certain short-term consequences, which is what I present here. Most of these consequences are already happening to some degree. Many of these are harbingers of the collapse of modern industrial civilization. Some of...
by Omega | Jul 19, 2023 | Environment
We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers the other. George Monbiot Read full article by George Monbiot in The...
by Omega | Jul 14, 2023 | Worldviews
We need to interrupt the negative screeds that seem to be proliferating throughout the media and gaining a lot of the initial attention of the public, and the political class, and the powers that be in various legacy industries and fields. Peter Leyden Read full...
by Omega | Jul 14, 2023 | Environment
We do not see the Earth and her bountiful gifts as items that must be exploited, transformed, consumed, or wasted. The understanding of the Earth as a living entity and not a dead thing warns that rapacious exploitation that disrupts her regenerative powers are acts...
by Omega | Jul 11, 2023 | People
Intersectionality, guided both by analysis and practice, can fundamentally transform how we understand the causes and impacts of inequalities and therefore how to meaningfully challenge them. Rana Zincir Celal Read full article by Rana Zincir Celal and edited by...
