There is much hand wringing happening worldwide about the fragility of democracies. In December 2021, U.S. President Biden invited world leaders to what he called the First Summit for Democracy. While the…
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In a speech on the eve of the New Year, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned that “Some of the oldest, most stable democracies have come under attack from a whole range…
In the lead up to its annual conference in Davos, the World Economic Forum has just released its 2023 Global Risks Report. The report summarises the results of the annual WEF survey…
It would appear that we have entered the crisis stage of our current ‘secular cycle’ around 2019. According to Turchin and Nefedov after the initial growth phase, which lasted around 100 years…
The news cycle in recent days was full of gushing stories about the ‘breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion announced by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California last…
The 2015 Paris Agreement on emissions reductions of greenhouse gases (GHG) was supposed to be a landmark agreement to avoid catastrophic global warming and to keep the global temperature increase ‘well below…
It would appear to those concerned about climate change and its catastrophic consequences for human civilisation that ‘we’ are still in denial. Policies everywhere continue to favour economic growth and securing fossil…
Collapse of human civilisations is nothing new and has happened many times in the past. The collapse of the Roman Empire is probably the most-cited example, but another noteworthy collapse in Europe…
Even if you don’t care about non-human species, for those who care about their children and grandchildren are you willing to significantly reduce your consumption of unnecessary products? This is the only…
As accelerating climate change has alerted the public that we urgently need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, politicians and the media have peddled a ‘transition to renewables’ fiction with no…