{"id":67625,"date":"2024-04-26T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67625"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:54:02","slug":"designing-collective-security-olivia-lazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67625","title":{"rendered":"Designing Collective Security | Olivia Lazard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Designing Collective Security | Olivia Lazard<\/a><\/h3>\n
Navigating existential crisis in a time of political and social upheaval<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We\u2019re breaking all kinds of records at the moment:\u00a0cities are boiling at 62C<\/a>, ocean temperatures are literally\u00a0off the charts<\/a>, and governments have increased the global defence budget to an alarming\u00a0$2440 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

War costs life, and not just human life. The environmental impacts of war are colossal, with\u00a0one study<\/a>\u00a0already showing that the first few months of Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza emitted more carbon dioxide than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in one year. Our ecosystems are at their breaking point, with six of nine planetary boundaries crossed. We need global collaboration to commit the huge systems overhaul necessary to survive the planetary crises and mitigate the catastrophic decisions of the last centuries.<\/p>\n

Olivia Lazard<\/a>, environmental peacemaker and research fellow at Carnegie Europe, joins me to discuss just how complex that task is, detailing the five steps of the Anthropocene and how violence increases at each step. We discuss these legacy systems of extraction and violence and how they are embedded into decisions being made around A.I., creating security risks in a resource-scarce world. We also cover the\u00a0dematerialisation<\/em>\u00a0of our economies, the myths that blind us to energy and materials, before discussing the balance of power tipping our planet and human systems further into crisis.<\/p>\n

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