Foresight practitioner interested in stewarding the future through innovation and leadership. All opinions are my own.
Melbourne, Aust
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Future Crunch beautifully delivers great content and I happily subscribe for a regular shot of hope.
Great work and highly recommended - thank you 🙏
“Climate tech investments are smashing all previous records. TPG and Brookfield, closed a combined $12.4 billion in climate investment funds. That’s more money committed in a day than used to be raised in years.
Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History
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If I told you that, thanks to my Time Machine, I had recently travelled to a low carbon, fairer, more just and equal 2030, and had managed to actually record what it sounded like, you'd want a listen right? Well now you can. You're in for a treat: robhopkins.net/2022/09/09/a-…
“At this juncture, he explained, “you have two choices: you can imagine the end of the world, or you can imagine the end of capitalism. And most people right now are imagining the end of the world.”
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Adding the latest info from Greenland - seems like something @ausgov should be paying attention to - theguardian.com/environment/…
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Fascinating!! “If the Greenland ice sheet melts, sea level in most of the Southern Hemisphere will increase about 30 percent more than the global average. So this is no small effect.” Love the counterintuitive thinking - thanks for the pickup.
"You’re never going to understand that water is falling near an ice sheet from your everyday experiences of the bathtub." @NautilusMag
m.nautil.us/issue/62/systems…
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“‘It is a very conservative rock-bottom minimum,’ said Prof Jason Box from the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, who led the research. ‘Realistically, we will see this figure more than double within this century.’” theguardian.com/environment/…
“these separations were also endorsed and enabled by dozens of members of the government’s middle and upper management… who, for various reasons, didn’t voice concern even when they should have seen catastrophe looming”
Today in The Atlantic: @itscaitlinhd investigates the cruelty and incompetence behind the Trump-administration initiative that separated thousands of families. Then: @robinsonmeyer on why, after more than three decades, climate politics is about to change
on.theatln.tc/WdQLWr4
What was once unthinkable becomes real - airline advance notice of a large level of cancellations to try and ensure system stability #pandemicartifacts
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So this was not at all predictable and we could not have made any other arrangements?! Disenfranchisement via virus seems a poor excuse two years into the pandemic.
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I didn’t until Twitter reminded me! It is a longer time than I thought and I have learned many things from this channel and the wonderful people on it. Many thanks 🙏
#MyTwitterAnniversary
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If we make the inevitable WW2 analogy to the planetary crisis, we're in 1937, where most people hoped the whole thing would blow over, and everyone looking clearly at the situation understood that total-fucking-all-defining mayhem was already on its way.
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Oh please no. No more future proofing. Don't do it. Even for the attention. Just don't.
“This is a time when we ought to dedicate ourselves to bringing about the greatest shift in human consciousness and in the way we live. We ought to consecrate ourselves to bringing about a conscious evolutionary leap forward.”
Words to live by!
Brilliant, beautiful words by Ben Okri theguardian.com/commentisfre…
I loved this!! I did enjoy your logo 😂 Thank you
Some said an open-world experience this immersive wasn’t possible. But it’s already here. And you don’t even need silly VR headsets.
Introducing, ✨Icelandverse✨
#icelandverse
“Will Steffen says keeping it to two degrees of warming is still possible, but only if… (we) stick to an ambitious 2030 target of 50 to 70% reduction in emissions.
Anyway, global emissions will not be cut by 50% by 2030, and 2 degrees of global warming is probably baked in.”
“It concluded that with a ‘mid-sea-level rise of 0.5 metres by 2100, events that now happen every 10 years would happen every 10 days. The current 1-in-100-year event could occur several times a year.” thenewdaily.com.au/finance/f…
Fascinating!! “If the Greenland ice sheet melts, sea level in most of the Southern Hemisphere will increase about 30 percent more than the global average. So this is no small effect.” Love the counterintuitive thinking - thanks for the pickup.
"You’re never going to understand that water is falling near an ice sheet from your everyday experiences of the bathtub." @NautilusMag
m.nautil.us/issue/62/systems…