PinnedMember-onlyHaiku PretencesSixteen Gathered Moments Moon through the window awakens! - Ksitigarbha’s third eye The gold Green Tara deepens! - the shimmering sun Birds clouds circle - in the rock pool Spider on a leaf seizes a fly under the leaf — morning peak hour! Sunset dusts before the bronze Buddha Rinsing…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 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-onlyClimate Change And The Collapse Of CivilisationDecarbonisation 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…Climate Change10 min readClimate Change10 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·2 days agoMember-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
Published inPredict·Aug 19Member-onlyHow Inflation Reduction Act Subsidies Accelerate Oil And Gas ProjectsHow Big Oil And Financial Markets Plan To Cash-in The average value of explicit government fossil fuel subsidies, globally, from 2010 to 2022 was $576 billion. But, in another display of the capture of government climate policy, lobbying by every major oil company resulted in the U.S. …Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Published inPredict·Aug 6Member-onlyHow Big Oil and Financial Markets Captured Climate Change: Deception, Government Policy, And The Social ContractFor decades, the fossil fuel industry deployed sophisticated campaigns that incorporated climate change denial, disinformation, lobbying, and deception to delay climate change action. BP’s deceitful ‘carbon footprint’ campaign has been successful in passing some responsibility for climate change from fossil fuel producers to consumers. The Oil and Gas industry has…Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
Published inPredict·Mar 25Member-onlyRussian Ressentiment And The War In UkrainePutin has recalled Russia’s identity and future through a revisionist reading of the cultural, historical, and religious connections between Russia and Ukraine — Russia’s future was to be found in its history. When Putin stated that the conflict with Ukraine and The West was about Russia’s survival, he was declaring…Ukraine4 min readUkraine4 min read
