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Fooled.
Fooled. How Gullible Politicians Promoted the Destruction of the Global Economy and Threw Us into the Abyss of Serfdom Anyone with some basic knowledge in mathematical modeling who had taken a look at the structure of the “Imperial College”-model would have noted the faults of this approach and its exaggerations. The model’s prognosis that the United Kingdom would […]
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions Is it even possible for humanity to safeguard its future? Are we bound to a fate of extinction… a still-birth on the way to becoming a planetary species? Or might we evolve our diverse cultures toward the regeneration of landscapes and ecosystems — making it possible to continue existing? These are not […]
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up!
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up! There is an unfortunate knee-jerk response programmed into many people in leadership positions to want to ask: “How do we scale it up?” every time they hear a seemingly good idea. To a larger or lesser extent, many of the people who have this response have contracted […]
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects In her testimony to the US Congress, Greta Thunberg did not prepare a statement for submission to the record. Instead, she submitted the most recent scientific report, issued by the IPCC three weeks earlier. She said simply, “I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don’t want […]
Escaping extinction through paradigm shift
Escaping extinction through paradigm shift ‘Rebellion’ is not enough. We need to build new systems from the ground up, right now For the last month, as a journalist and academic, I’ve experienced a strange sensation of paralysis. I don’t usually experience this. Usually I find myself driven by the pressures of wanting to cover with due justice […]
US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid
US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will […]
Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures practice
Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures practice Advanced praise for Anthony Hodgson’s forthcoming new book I have the pleasure and the privilege to count Tony as a friend, a mentor and a colleague for more than a decade now. We connected over a UNITAR sustainability workshop in Scotland that I co-organized and facilitated which his wife […]
Brexit: stage one in Europe’s slow-burn energy collapse
Brexit: stage one in Europe’s slow-burn energy collapse The Brexit fiasco and French riots are accelerating symptoms of Europe’s earth system crisis Riots in Paris (source: Irish Times) Everyone’s talking about Brexit. Some about the French riots. But no one’s talking about why they are happening, and what they really mean. They might think they are, but they […]
How Does Cinema War Propaganda Really Work?
How Does Cinema War Propaganda Really Work? It goes far beyond the government entertainment liaison offices As the co-authors of National Security Cinema, we have become known — rather inaccurately — for encouraging two major ideas:- 1. That the government is really important in making movies more militaristic. 2. That Hollywood doesn’t produce dissenting films. While the first of these is […]
The Other Two Kinds Of Debt
The Other Two Kinds Of Debt “Any corporation, private or governmental, that wishes to provide for a sound and equitable continuity of its business must take steps towards the systematic retirement of debt immediately after it has been incurred. Postponement of all payment for property or privileges by those who presently enjoy their benefits is […]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream] Transcript of Daniel Wahl’s ‘Findhorn Talk’ on Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystems Restoration at the dawn of the Century of Regeneration; October 13th, 2018 […Part I] We need to go upstream and look at this ‘crisis of perception’. We need to start rethinking the story of who we […]
Society As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science
Society As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science Cities are profoundly complex incarnations of cultural evolution. Image Credit: Vincent Laforet Humanity is now confronted with new challenges unlike anything we have experienced before. Our evolved history as a species has not prepared us for what is happening now. It is time to start seeing culture as […]
Murdered for Sand
Murdered for Sand The world is running out of sand, and people are dying as a result “It is to cities what flour is to bread, what cells are to our bodies: the invisible but fundamental ingredient that makes up the bulk of the built environment in which most of us live.“ — Vince Beiser, author […]
Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable
Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data — by accident or design It’s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As […]
Mapping the pieces in the puzzle of local/global (glocal) regeneration
Mapping the pieces in the puzzle of local/global (glocal) regeneration Gaia Education’s ‘Design for Sustainability’ online course offers a whole systems design perspective on ‘regeneration 101’ Daniel Wahl (4th from the right on top) during the Ecovillage Design Education course at Findhorn in 2006 In 2006 after finishing my PhD in ‘Design for Human and Planetary […]
