by Omega | Nov 15, 2022 | Books, Nonfiction, Polycrisis
Edited by Ugo Bardi & Carlos Alvarez Pereira In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 11, 2022 | Culture
We’ve all been living in a state of permanent crisis, a “permacrisis” if you will, according to lexicographers at the U.K.-based Collins Dictionary who have anointed it the word of the year for 2022. The portmanteau describes the feeling of “living through [a] period...
by Omega | Oct 28, 2022 | Watchlist, Webinar, Worldviews
Dr. Maristella Svampa and Enrique Viale join Tom Kruse from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to explore “Ecosocial collapse” in Latin America. They contextualize ecosocial collapse as part of the history of unjust extractive dynamics between Latin America and...
by Omega | Oct 27, 2022 | Environment
Around the world, temperature extremes are impacting major global food crops. A recent study reported in RFI calculated heat stress risk for food crop production in 20 countries, including the US, the world’s top agricultural producer. Worsening global heatwaves...
by Omega | Oct 27, 2022 | Polycrisis
Managing increasing demand for water, clean air, minerals, energy, and food is rapidly becoming one of our greatest challenges. What strategies are available to us? Are there alternatives to winners and losers? Stan Cox’s work on looks at these pressing topics...
by Omega | Oct 25, 2022 | Polycrisis, Watchlist, Webinar
Managing increasing demand for water, clean air, minerals, energy, and food is rapidly becoming one of our greatest challenges. What strategies are available to us? Are there alternatives to winners and losers? Stan Cox challenges us to grapple honestly with the...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Politics
Alla Gutnikova is among the editors of the Moscow student journal DOXA, who faced prison sentences for “inciting minors to take part in illegal opposition protests.” This translation of her closing statement in their sentencing trial was posted in Facebook...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Worldviews
Moss, climate, and deep time This recent piece by Robin Wall Kimmerer takes a deep look at a forgotten part of life on Earth. She reminds us that “the laws of nature will bring us to our knees. And then perhaps we will see the mosses.” Mosses, I think, are...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Polycrisis
Human-induced climate change is fast becoming a climate emergency as we near an irreversible point of no return. In our anthropocentric quest to have dominion over all the earth, we are putting all of life at risk, including human life and civilization. The...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Worldviews
Our food systems are not just the work of humans. They are the work of the mountains, of Pachamama [Mother Earth], of the sacred, the whole community which is centered on reciprocity, solidarity, and respect for elements of life. This is buen vivir (‘living well’) for...
