by Omega | May 29, 2023 | Economy
The Caribbean island, which shares a close yet fraught relationship with the rest of the United States, faces a multilayered economic and social crisis rooted in long-standing policy and compounded by natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic, migration, and government...
by Omega | May 26, 2023 | Politics
I today want to concentrate on one point, and that is a point that the report got right beyond any doubt: That is the clear message that a growth model centred on fossil fuels is simply obsolete. This assessment has been confirmed, time and again. The recent IPCC...
by Omega | May 26, 2023 | Worldviews
There are a number of questions related to this discussion, including: “In what ways will AI affect how we shape culture? What threat is posed to humanity when AI masters human intimacy? Is AI the end of human history? Will ordinary individuals be able to...
by Omega | May 26, 2023 | Resilience
Link to listen to Crazy Town podcast episode 74 with Asher Miller By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
by Omega | May 26, 2023 | Economy
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. Bernard Condon Read full article in...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | May 22, 2023 | Omega Resilience Awards, Polycrisis
We’re excited to announce our inaugural cohort of twenty-one Omega Resilience Award Fellows from India, Latin America and Africa. We’ve been building towards this moment for over a year and collectively, we believe that these inspiring leaders drawn from diverse...
by Omega | May 22, 2023 | Pandemics
“It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency,” said the W.H.O. director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros Adhanom Ghebstreyesus Read full article in The New York Times by Stephanie Nolan
by Omega | May 22, 2023 | Pandemics
The Biden administration is preparing to lift an emergency health rule that has been used to prevent hundreds of thousands of migrants from entering the United States, setting the stage for what could be a new immigration surge that inflames political tensions and...
by Omega | May 22, 2023 | Pandemics
Just how much harm repeat infections will cause is a matter of debate. “There are some almost pathologically polarized opinions out there,” says Danny Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London. One side argues that SARS-CoV-2 is a run-of-the-mill respiratory...
by Omega | May 22, 2023 | Pandemics
Wachter isn’t the only expert to raise the possibility of an equally transmissible but more lethal pandemic pathogen. COVID’s ability to infect more efficiently has skyrocketed since 2019, soaring from near the bottom of the list of contagious diseases to near the...
