Published inPredict·PinnedMember-onlyHow We Traded A Rationality Of A Genuine Human Life For The Climate ApocalypseThe Enlightenment project intended to deliver us from the chains of religion to a secular, disenchanted world; instead, ours is a world of ‘misenchantment,’ Our present system is a successor faith, rather than a successor to faith, pretending to the status of immutable, impersonal laws of nature. The organisation of…Future4 min readFuture4 min read
Published inPredict·PinnedMember-onlyHow Carbon Capture & Storage Accelerates New Oil & Gas Projects— Yes, It Is Already Happening! Carbon Capture & Storage technology has become a new investment asset class with the perverse effect of driving new oil & gas projects — and Fink proposes that the IMF and World Bank should wear the liability. The average value of explicit government fossil fuel subsidies, globally, from 2010 to…Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Published inPredict·PinnedMember-onlyHow Big Oil And Financial Markets Captured Climate Change: Decades Of Counter-NarrativeBy the 1950s, the oil industry knew that burning fossil fuels could potentially lead to adverse global impacts on climate, including rising temperatures and melting ice caps. It is ironic that Exxon’s own commitment to science would project it to the forefront of the most up to date and accurate…Climate Change14 min readClimate Change14 min read
Published inPredict·PinnedMember-onlyThe Rise of Techno-FeudalismGlobalisation 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…Social Media9 min readSocial Media9 min read
Published inPredict·PinnedMember-onlyHuman Futures 6; The Rise of The Machines — The Retreat of Humanity and Robots As Archetypal End-StateThe 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…Technology8 min readTechnology8 min read
Published inPredict·Nov 12Member-onlyAustralia’s Housing CrisisAustralia has failed to use its income from resources exports to transition the economy to an advanced industrial and technological society. …Housing Crisis4 min readHousing Crisis4 min read
Published inPredict·Nov 5Member-onlyHow The Scheme To Use Hamas to Undermine The Palestinian Authority BackfiredNetanyahu worked to undermine the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank while maintaining indirect negotiations with Hamas via Egypt, and facilitating financial support to Hamas from Qatar. So long as the Palestinians remained divided among themselves then a peace agreement was likely impossible. …International Relations4 min readInternational Relations4 min read
Published inPredict·Oct 29Member-onlyBackground To The Situation In GazaThe surreal and violent eruption of Hamas out of Gaza was a pathological reaction to decades of trauma suffered by Palestinians — prisoners held in the largest concentration camp ever — Gaza. Killings, apartheid, land appropriation, confinement and subjugation at some point yield karmic debt, amplified by years of stewing…International Relations9 min readInternational Relations9 min read
Published inPredict·Sep 19Member-onlyHow Big Oil and Financial Markets Captured The U.N. Climate AgendaExxon established the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), which spent millions of dollars campaigning against a binding global climate agreement ahead of the 1997 UN climate summit in Kyoto, which influenced the US Congress to not ratify the Kyoto climate agreement. …Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Published inPredict·Sep 8Member-onlyHow Australia Is Sliding From ‘The Lucky Country’ To Third-WorldFrom 1995 to 2023, Australia’s economic complexity fell from 57 to 93, behind Uganda; a decline that is accelerating: in 2019, Australia ranked 79th for economic complexity, behind Kazakhstan. Australia is ranked 50 places below Canada. Australia’s top trading partner, China, rose from 51st to 19th over the same timeframe. …Australia3 min readAustralia3 min read
