“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.” Ernest Hemingway Inequality is increasing all around the world and this exacerbates the constellation of crises known as the global polycrisis.  Except for the century following the Black Death pandemic (1347-1352), and the period between the 1920s and the 1970s,...

Global inequality is both a driver and a symptom of today’s polycrisis—a convergence of social, economic, political, and environmental challenges. Disparity takes many forms and arises from a complex web of causes. Intersecting systems of discrimination and disadvantage reinforce inequity between groups, leading to a wide range of interconnected and...

Fossil fuels are both the leading cause of the crises we face and the primary reason we are not acting at the required scale. The entangled cluster of environmental, economic, social, and technological problems is referred to as the polycrisis, or the great unravelling.  This is the subject of a...

The preoccupation with growth is one of the core impediments preventing us from addressing our perilous predicament. The pervasive influence of this flawed belief is antithetical to our efforts to respond to the crises we face at a scale commensurate with the threats. The logic is inescapable, in a finite...

In the second part of this special edition podcast, Change Oracle's Richard Matthews discusses the logic of inaction with Tom Schuneman, the owner of the Planet Watch Group and Editor of Global Warming Is Real. They explain that the crises we face, are attributable to a system that is rife...

There was so much bad news in 2024, it is easy to overlook the cornucopia of environmental success stories.  While we cannot afford to ignore setbacks and defeats, we should also acknowledge the victories that doomscrolling misses.   There were major successes in 2024, like the UN announcement that the...