The end of the pandemic may be in sight, but COVID-19 could be a harbinger of future calamities. If global leaders do not establish equitable mechanisms to respond before the next big crisis strikes, low-income countries and high-risk groups will once again pay the highest price.
The Metaverse’s Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?
Silicon Valley wants to create an immersive virtual world. Is that good or bad news for our well-being?
Switzerland Could Be the First Country to Ban Factory Farming
That conundrum is playing out on dinner plates across Europe. On the one hand, a rising concern with animal welfare and an awareness of agriculture’s environmental impact, especially when it comes to climate change (animal husbandry contributes 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions), has translated into a broad and growing movement to reduce meat consumption and improve the conditions under which livestock are raised.
Varshini Prakash on Redefining What’s Possible
The Sunrise Movement cofounder shares lessons on how to grow political power
The IMF Climate Coin Revisited
In the novel, Robinson introduces a carbon coin, inspired by a conceptual framework designed by Delton Chen, founder of the Global Carbon Reward Initiative. Today, the need for an IMF Climate Stablecoin has become even more pressing.
Meet the future in this online series about climate change
Most people now accept that to avoid a climate disaster, the world has to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The Great Progression, 2025-2050 By Peter Leyden
The next 25 years will see the introduction and scaling up of not one but three fundamentally new technologies that will have world-historic impact. We’re heading into a triple-whammy tech boom — not just another Long Boom, but a Long Boom Squared.