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New Thinking
Broken Men With Power
Motortion | istockphoto.com Many years ago I first heard the phrase, “there is nothing more dangerous than a broken man with power”. This is confirmed by the numerous books written about individual men – Hitler, Starlin, Pinochet, Pol Pot – examining the men themselves and what led to their brutal regimes. Time-after-time books and research documented how one man (and yes, it is almost exclusively men), surrounded by a small and highly rewarded fan club,…
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Nature Positive And The Dangers Of Investing In Opaque Systems
petmal | istockphoto.com To anyone trying to understand the accelerating juggernaut of ‘Nature Positive’, and if it can genuinely help tackle biodiversity loss, a good first step to is to…
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Elite Infighting Is Driving Collapse
ThinhAit | istockphoto.com As with environmental collapse, we can’t say there is no understanding of what is driving political turbulence and social breakdown worldwide. Many regions of the world look to…
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Democratic Backsliding Is A Threat To The Natural World
istockphoto.com | Jorm Sangsorn 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…
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A Furious New Attitude
rrodrickbeiler | istockphoto.com 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…
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The Family Reunion For The People Who Broke The World
pixelprof | istockphoto.com 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…
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Insurance Could Be The First Casualty Of Collapse
Steve Jolicoeur | Dreamstime.com 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…
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Nuclear Fusion And The Myth Of Progress
The National Ignition Facility Target Chamber | Wikipedia The news cycle in recent days was full of gushing stories about the ‘breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion announced by the National Ignition…
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Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions Falling?
Capstoc | istockphoto.com 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…
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