by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Economy
Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the insurance industry’s costliest years on record for natural disasters, Munich Re said on Tuesday, warning that climate change was making storms more intense...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Polycrisis
Whatever one’s favored terminology for describing the current moment, there is widespread agreement that we are facing unprecedented, unusual, and unexpected levels of uncertainty, auguring a future of crisis, instability, and conflict. But whether we will actually do...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Culture
These are a few of the global buzzwords you’re probably going to be hearing as 2023 kicks off. Sometimes buzzwords are easy to understand. It’s not that hard to figure out that a polycrisis is worse than a monocrisis. Andrew Connelly Link to full article...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Culture
Whichever image or feeling is evoked by the idea of ‘the pickle’, onemajor point of the metaphor, in a time of difficult decisions, is tohelp avoid various kinds of sweet-tasting spiritual bypassing, by re-8minding us of the importance of good and necessary but...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Politics
As first reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW Public Radio, there have been at least six attacks, some of which involved firearms and caused residents to lose power. Two of the attacks shared similarities with the incident in Moore county, North Carolina,...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Worldviews
The recently concluded 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, went in the way of rituals and did not rise beyond the low bars set by previous editions. Nnemmo...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Environment
We stand at a crossroads unprecedented in human history, with government leaders convening for two global conferences on climate change and biodiversity in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, the fabric of life is unravelling. Gaia Foundation Link to...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | People
Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s foremost writers of dystopian literature, having imagined such worst-case horrors as a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the rich (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and a bioengineered virus capable of eradicating...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Worldviews
This March, a young mother arrived with 3 children at Dollo Ado in southeastern Ethiopia, where 5 refugee camps currently serve more than 200 000 displaced Somalis. Howard Larkin Read full article by Howard Larkin in Jama Network
by Omega | Jan 16, 2023 | Environment
As human activities rapidly transform the planet, the global insect population is declining at an unprecedented rate of up to 2% per year. Amid deforestation, pesticide use, artificial light pollution and climate change, these critters are struggling — along with the...
