by Omega | Oct 24, 2022 | Pandemics
While Omicron’s 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. Let’s 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 — 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 world’s...
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 race—and...
by Omega | Oct 11, 2022 | Books, Worldviews
This book adds an indigenous perspective on the polycrisis–it’s 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 Wyman’s 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...
by Omega | Sep 19, 2022 | Watchlist, Webinar
An Omega Collaborative Rapid Response webinar:Implications of damage to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant What is happening at the power plant? What does “meltdown” mean in this case? What is likely to happen? Best case scenarios and worst-case scenarios What are the...
by Omega | Sep 12, 2022 | Books, Community
Mary Watkins brings together activist, archetypal, and community-based work with beauty and grace. How do we show up—for all humans and all species—in the name of peace and liberation? If this question haunts you or sparks your imagination, dig into this offering....
