by Susan Grelock Yusem | Feb 28, 2023 | Books, Fiction, Polycrisis
As ‘The Displacements’ slows down and sinks into the frustrations of life in a massive relief camp, the story recalls the Houston Astrodome after Katrina — except that here we witness what one character sardonically labels a ‘catastrophe of...
by Omega | Feb 27, 2023 | Worldviews
The end of history is perhaps best understood as a threshold of complexity beyond which the present is uninhabitable for collective imaginations at the scales we yearn for. Only atomized individuals and unsatisfyingly small tribes can make the journey from past to...
by Omega | Feb 27, 2023 | Worldviews
Our lives tend to run smoothly and predictably most of the time, but they are also prone to intermittent instability with devastating consequences. Can we do more to predict these periods and even intervene to prevent them? Tim Palmer Read the full article by Tim...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Economy
The world faces a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. The Global Risks Report 2023 explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade. As we stand on the edge of a low-growth and low-cooperation era, tougher...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Worldviews
Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn’t really, really, think it was worth it. This sounds hyperbolic, but I feel like I had the most surprising and mind-blowing computer...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Environment
“You are not mature enough to tell it like it is,” she told the assembled diplomats and negotiators, “even that burden you leave to us children.” Greta Thunberg Read the full interview by David Wallace-Wells in The New York Times
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Worldviews
A series of disasters — including catastrophic flooding, political paralysis, exploding inflation, and a resurgent terror threat — risk sending the global player into full-blown crisis. Murtaza Hussain Read the full article by Murtaza Hussain on The...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Resilience
Within the next 25 years, more than 200 million people will move within their own countries because of climate change, the World Bank predicts. They will be driven out of their homes and villages because our warming planet is making some places unlivable. And they...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Resilience
After decades of false promises to deliver limitless energy, we need to start thinking instead, and search for limits both obvious and hidden. Doing so usually leads to a better understanding of how things really work. Richard Heinberg Read the full article by...
by Omega | Feb 21, 2023 | Polycrisis
A remarkable feature of liberal thought is the tendency towards identification of social phenomena through the selective elevation of their key distinguishing features, which are abstract enough to form ‘systems’ and neutral enough to subsume the inherent...
