Foresight practitioner interested in stewarding the future through innovation and leadership. All opinions are my own.
Melbourne, Aust
Joined May 2008
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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-…
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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/…
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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.
Rowena Morrow retweeted
Oh please no. No more future proofing. Don't do it. Even for the attention. Just don't.
Rowena Morrow retweeted
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
In 2021, it falls on July 29.
Get informed: overshootday.org
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If you’ve not followed the North America heatwaves - this takes you from the start with the fires and temperatures all the way through to concerns they raise about whether current projections underestimates the impact of climate change. In 7 mins.
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But I'm still on team active media. I would rather people actively choose their media diets, in a truly sociable mode of consumption AND production, than leaning back and getting fed whatever is served up by the feed.
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In which the excellent @natalie_barr calmly, professionally shows why facts matter.
Here's what happened when we fact-checked some of Health Minister @GregHuntMP's claims in this morning’s interview about Australia's vaccine rollout.
Rowena Morrow retweeted
At home in New York, he received a hand-calligraphed copy of “The Words Spoken Before All Others”, aka the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, adopted in a ceremony at Onondaga Lake as the Opening Invocation for the General Assembly of the United Peoples, on 22 April 2070.
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Based in Oxford, Roman received a thank you for serving in the 2032 Oxfordshire Ancestors’ Assembly (modelled on Japan’s current “Future Design” process), and a robe as ritually worn by participants when deliberating the potential impacts of their decisions on future generations.
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The grifter: My 8 year old niece
The prize: Playing virtual hooky permanently (School Zoom calls)
The marks: My sister, my brother in law, the teacher, the school’s computer teacher, the principle and Zoom's support team
The con: How she pulled it off… thread
Rowena Morrow retweeted
when burnum burnum planted a flag on the cliffs of dover on 26 jan 1988, the act was largely considered a curiosity, a joke. the murdoch papers in the UK were particularly dismissive. in response, my great-uncle (who had been his headmaster) wrote this letter to the guardian
Rowena Morrow retweeted
Loved this. Of course, close your eyes and think "brain needle" to yourself a few times or "green storm" and ... voila. H/T @michael_at_work ->
Rowena Morrow retweeted
So, no 7.45am ABC news this morning. I’ve reported for that bulletin, been a sub-editor for that bulletin. Like millions of Australians, I’ve listened to it most of my life. To axe it is an act of contemptuous, ignorant vandalism. RT if you agree,
Rowena Morrow retweeted
Interested to hear @NoraBateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, @AmandaTatts and myself in conversation about creating cultures of transition? We're kicking off a 4-part series called 'Learning Change' on 23 September.
#change #complexity #transition #regeneration
samrye.xyz/learning-change-a…
Rowena Morrow retweeted
On Earth Overshoot Day there’s just one classic to read by the sea (and there’s even a solution in sight...) #EarthOvershootDay
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The Brittleness Bubble is far, far bigger than we're acknowledging.
A staggering percentage of the world's critical infrastructure is now entering a world where climate conditions routinely exceed the tolerances for which that infrastructure was designed.
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Home Affairs Dept body Emergency Management Australia tells the inquiry there is still no money from this program being spent on mitigation. Says other funds being spent first abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/n…
