by Omega | Feb 16, 2023 | Polycrisis
The folks who warn about a polycrisis argue that it is not just components within a single system that are tightly interconnected. It is the systems themselves — health, geopolitics, the environment — that are increasingly interacting and tightly coupled. Therefore,...
by Omega | Feb 15, 2023 | Worldviews
“We may not yet see what’s really happening around us now, and what actually will happen in the next 25 years. But people in the future, and maybe for a long time into the future, will look back and fully appreciate what we are about to accomplish. People in 100...
by Omega | Feb 15, 2023 | Polycrisis
This past year was the year that the polycrisis exploded as a global meme. “Polycrisis” was the word of the year 2022 in the Collins Dictionary. The World Economic Forum in Davos where the ultra-wealthy and their acolytes gather to pontificate declared 2023 “the...
by Omega | Feb 13, 2023 | Culture
Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis. This is as true of climate chaos as anything else. We are hemmed in by stories that prevent us from seeing, or believing in, or acting on the possibilities for change. Some are habits of mind, some are industry...
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Politics
To mitigate the worst effects of climate change and prevent societal breakdown, we must shift to renewable energies and reduce extreme inequality. But doing so would require massive increases in public spending, which is why governments must overhaul their outdated...
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Resilience
Humanity is on its way into an era of uncertainty and turbulence The key to meeting this uncertainty is to increase the diversity with which societies can meet disturbances Instead of looking for the “best” practice of doing something, one should recognize that it’s a...
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Resilience
Resilience (of the right things) seems self-evidently valuable, but is it more than a buzzword? If so, how do we put it into practice? What exactly do we do for people, systems and organizations to help them become resilient? And how do we measure the...
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Polycrisis
If so, this polycrisis presumably replaces the “tripledemic” we recently survived, and may yet blend into the “permacrisis” (Collins Dictionary Word of the Year in 2022). It could also join the “megathreats” out there. Or it may revert to being a good old-fashioned...
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Pandemics
As the world is just beginning to recover from the devastation of Covid-19, it is facing the possibility of a pandemic of a far more deadly pathogen. Zeynep Tufekci Link to full article in The New York Times by Zeynep Tufekci
by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Pandemics
According to one tabulation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 300,000 additional Americans have died over the past three years whom we would not have expected to in more normal times. David Wallace-Wells Link to full article in The New...
