Humanity faces an existential emergency comprising many interlinked catastrophic risks which are now arriving together. Their collective scale is so great that few grasp it. Together, these risks endanger our […]
How is the digitalization of daily life impacting climate change?
IIASA researcher Charlie Wilson has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant to study how the digitalization of our everyday lives impacts climate change and to explore how it […]
Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
Changing course Fundamental change is required to avoid this ghastly future. Specifically, we and many others suggest: abolishing the goal of perpetual economic growth revealing the true cost of products […]
Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible
This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts […]
World Bank: Policy shifts can mitigate gray tsunami as population ages
“The greatest risk we face is not aging itself, but the unwillingness or inability to adapt,” said Laura Tuck, the World Bank’s vice president for the Europe and Central Asia […]