by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Environment
A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopiaâyet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Environment
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels...
by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Pandemics
While Omicronâs subvariants find new ways to evade vaccines and destabilize immune systems, another pandemic has overwhelmed officials who are supposed to be in charge of public health. Letâs call it a plague of willful incompetence or an outbreak of epidemiological...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Oct 21, 2022 | Polycrisis, The Long View
To support our shared understanding of these challenging times, we offer an Omega news digest on a global systems view of interconnected and interacting stressors. We hope you find it useful. The big picture The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing....
by Omega | Oct 20, 2022 | Environment
Agroecologist Miguel A Altieri’s recent article highlights the very real stressors of climate change on the future of human food supplies. Conventional responses fail to address the complex reality of the polycrisis, but indigenous practices offer hope in their...
by Omega | Oct 18, 2022 | Environment
Shanna Swan on the worldwide drop in fertility A dramatic decline in sperm counts is occurring around the world â more than 50 percent over five decades. This means a man today likely has only half the number of sperm that his grandfather did. As one of the worldâs...
by Omega | Oct 18, 2022 | Environment
In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture It was early on a Sunday morning, and I was in the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, 28km south of Mexico City’s historical centre. The endless maze of canals...
by Omega | Oct 14, 2022 | Economy
Climate change. Ocean overfishing and dead zones. Animal extinction. Soil depletion and desertification. Environmental pollution. Overpopulation. Failed states. Debt. Chronic disease. Pandemics. These are some of the top stressors on the planet and the human raceâand...
by Omega | Oct 11, 2022 | Books, Worldviews
This book adds an indigenous perspective on the polycrisisâitâs perspective-shifting and adds what has been missing in polycrisis conversations. And makes the important point that the actual idea of a polycrisis is a colonial construct. Susan An innovative work of...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Oct 10, 2022 | Polycrisis
It’s the little things Historian Partick Wymanâs recent piece in Mother Jones amplifies the emerging idea that the downfall of this current iteration of human history is not nearly as dramatic as a Margaret Atwood novel or a dystopian fiction novel. It...
