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Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions
Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions Taxpayers and already struggling communities are largely bearing the brunt of the costs for climate change-fueled disasters created by big oil and big business. “We got a little bit lucky,” said President Donald Trump about the storm which killed at least six people in […]
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine Free your mind, find your power, change the world We previously exposed the fact that President Donald Trump is fighting a war to protect the establishment from itself, and the rest of us. Now here’s what we do about it. We’re all feeling it. A sense that, […]
Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence
Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence Crack team that advised UN Global Sustainable Development Report settle a longstanding debate with hard empirical data For years, financial institutions and governments have been focused on the idea of ‘decoupling’ GDP growth from resource use. This has been driven by the recognition […]
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions […]
Europe must prepare for life after oil
Europe must prepare for life after oil The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to leave the fossil fuel era behind. Europe needs to begin preparing for what comes next. Oil prices have crashed. The most visible cause has been the measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, which have triggered record lows in global oil […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil For the first time in history, in the wake of the corona crisis, US oil prices have gone negative thanks to record lows in global oil demand. This pandemic has revealed deep-seated structural vulnerabilities in our fossil fuel-dependent economy. The most […]
Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change
Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change As the pandemic grows, governments and communities are not only struggling to minimize loss of life and protect our fragile healthcare and economic systems, they are wrestling with questions about how we can recover when this storm eventually passes. But how many people are thinking about […]
Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift
Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift A systems analysis uncovering the light at the end of the tunnel Five years ago, the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, an independent panel of distinguished scientists, issued a landmark report warning that over the next century, the world would inevitably experience at least one […]
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 […]
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change
Image: Shutterstock Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as well be. This is, […]
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state?
Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Science fiction has long speculated on the danger of a dystopian future and machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI). But with the advent of big data, we no longer need to speculate: the future […]
Whistleblowers say NSA still spies on American phones in hidden program
Whistleblowers say NSA still spies on American phones in hidden program Meanwhile, the bulk of the NSA’s surveillance and “offensive” information warfare capabilities remain completely unknown On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has “quietly” shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. The claim was […]
How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism
How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism Source: arabisouri, The Inevitable End of Capitalism, steemkr.com Preface. The article below was written by Nafeez Ahmed, who wrote one of my favorite books “Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence“. Ahmed writes: “Most observers have no idea of the current biophysical realities – […]
The “disintegration” of global capitalism could unleash world war 3, warns top EU economist
The “disintegration” of global capitalism could unleash world war 3, warns top EU economist Seeing the systemic roots of this risk can help us avert catastrophe and build resilience A senior European Commission economist has warned that a Third World War is an extremely “high probability” in coming years due to the disintegration of global […]
2018: the tipping point
2018: the tipping point My year in review — looking back, looking ahead Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Please support us to keep digging where others fear to tread. Over the last few years, the sense that world events are accelerating in a way that is increasingly difficult to keep up with […]
