The Long View
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Michael Lerner in conversation with Louis Klein (EUSG) and Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen Community Foundation) Starting from the premise, advanced by the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) and the European School of Governance (EUSG), that at the core of...
by Joe Graedon in The People’s Pharmacy…Millions of people are suffering from long COVID. What about Long Vax? Is it real? This condition remains mostly unstudied and confusing.
by Damian Carrington in The Guardian…In the face of such colossal danger, why is the world’s response so slow and inadequate? The IPCC experts overwhelmingly pointed to one barrier: lack of political will. Almost three-quarters of the respondents cited this factor, with 60% also blaming vested corporate interests.
by Jennifer B. Nuzzo in The New York Times….No one knows whether H5N1, if left unchecked, will become the deadly pandemic that public health experts like me worry it could. Many of us have been watching H5N1 with alarm for more than 20 years.
by Abrahm Lustgarten in The Atlantic….Rising temperatures could push millions of people north.
by Leonard Jason in MedPage Today…Because a large percentageopens in a new tab or window of primary care patients have unexplained symptoms, healthcare workers often do not know what is causing their symptoms or how to help them. Physicians might feel better providing a nebulous diagnosis like the proposed National Academies long COVID definition, but in the long-run, I doubt this helps patients.
by Chris Bing and Joel Schectman in Reuters….The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
by Alexander Burns in Politico…Justin Trudeau probably won’t ask Joe Biden if the U.S. is headed for a war between the states. But a report from within his government says it’s time for Canada to get ready.
by Zeynep Tufekci in The New York Times….Big chunks of the history of the Covid pandemic were rewritten over the last month or so in a way that will have terrible consequences for many years to come.
by Rivka Galchen in The New Yorker…..Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear annihilation, biological warfare—the field of existential risk is a way to reason through the dizzying, terrifying headlines.
from OECD…..A Comprehensive Foresight Methodology to Support Sustainable and Future-Ready Public Policy
in Futures Lab report in Horizon 2045…We look for evidence of the future that’s coming and in some cases is already here.
by Zoë Schlanger in The Atlantic…Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.
