Globalisation and automation are impacting society shifting it to a feudal like state. The disruption that has followed globalisation and automation has eliminated vast numbers of businesses and destroyed millions of middle-class jobs. Rising productivity from automation has not been re-invested, and has not yielded replacement jobs. Adding to the…

Decarbonisation of primary energy generation is essential to mitigating climate change — sure, but is it the immediate problem we need to confront? The problem we need to face are the factors driving our apparent ‘collective suicide’. After three decades of U.N. Climate Conferences, and international agreements the world is…

The techno-industrial paradigm has imposed our operating rules while technology has mediated almost every dimension of our lives to which we have become unconsciously subservient. As humanity retreats, our interactions with each other and society have become increasingly shallow, mechanistic, transactional, and instrumental. The totalising impact of techno-industrialisation has left…

How Wall Street led by Goldman Sachs conspired with the CCP to export US manufacturing to China, while Putin greased Gerhard Schroeder to lock-in EU energy dependence upon Russia, followed by Angela Merkel who courted both Russia and China overseeing massive EU investments in the Russian energy sector, and the…

ON Nov 29 2022, The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to allow police to use robots to kill people in limited circumstances. A week later, in response to public outcry, the decision was reversed. That this decision happened could be a point of no return: we have crossed the…

The COP27 agreement to compensate poor countries for climate change through an international fund further entrenches Climate Change initiatives within financial markets. Funding decisions will be subject to cost/benefit analysis and weighed against other programmes. Governments and global institutions such as the World Bank apply social discount rates to weigh…

Reclaiming the Future from Rationalism, Scientism, and Technochauvinism: Many of the issues in the world have their origin in worldviews that have been taken to an extreme, blindly incorporated into ideological programs resulting in pathologies and traumas inflicted upon society and the planet — the Holocaust, and Climate Change are two recent traumas resulting from blind Rationalism, and…

Genocide in Tibet and Xinjiang, and Crimes Against Humanity Against Religious Groups: The repression of the Uyghurs in China is part of a larger campaign to exterminate non-Han identity in China which echoes Nazi National Socialist policies of racial unity. It is also a response to the collapse of the Soviet Union which CCP scholars concluded had much to do with the…

Space junk swarms the upper atmosphere and beyond. Microplastics have permeated the atmosphere, the oceans, and are embedded in our bodies. Industrial activity pours billions of tons of CO2e into the lower atmosphere. Our systems spew out unimaginable amounts of data. CO2, microplastics, other toxins, space junk, and data are…