We have constructed a civilisation in which recognising existential risk has become another reason to continue producing it.
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Technocracy: Addicted to Risk
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redesigning the global economy
The greatest trick concentrated capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that its own most destructive tendencies belonged exclusively to communism.
The world is not merely broken. Too many people are paid to keep it that way.
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pay the piper: hidden tariff
Every system sends the bill somewhere else until there’s nowhere left to send it.
It is worth remembering that civilisation persists by unacknowledged permission of the planetary systems that sustain it.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
Climate change becomes civilisational risk when insurance can no longer translate catastrophe into recoverable cost.
The central risk of climate change is not gradual warming. It is reorganisation. The Earth system may be approaching, or may already be entering, a phase transition. Complex systems rarely fail all at once. They drift, they desynchronise, and then they reorganise. The shift is rarely theatrical. It emerges from relations, from accumulated imbalance, from […]
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Out of Phase: Under a Blood Moon
He noticed it first in the rhythm of things. Not the temperature, which always wandered, but the timing. Winter arrived on the calendar and not in the soil. Rain came hard and left quickly, as if it had somewhere else to be. Summer stretched, then stretched again, like a conversation that had lost its point […]
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Climate System Complexity
For a long time, serious problem-solving assumed the world could be broken into parts, those parts analysed separately, and the larger situation improved by fixing each component in turn. That still works for bounded problems. It fails when the object is not a part but a whole system composed of vast numbers of interdependent subsystems […]
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Honesty or Extinction
Honesty or extinction. That’s the choice. Climate change isn’t a crisis outside us—it’s the mirror of everything we’ve built. Our systems, proud and precise, are designed to defend their own definitions. Governments, universities, corporations—all fluent in continuity, allergic to contradiction. They confuse repetition with stability, and stability with survival. But the planet doesn’t care for […]
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Environmental Equilibrium
Responsibility belongs to all, everywhere. There may be nothing more sacred than the nature in which—and for which—we exist as sentient expressions. Forests are cathedrals; mountains are temples; rivers are bridges of communication deeper and more elegant than we’ve yet even begun to understand. Might it be that divinity treasures all life, all being, all […]
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