Worthwhile wisdom from Richard Heinberg

Interested in systemic risk/ polycrisis/ collapse, and how to respond/prepare? This is the place to be! Glad to be making a contribution. @thinkorswim.bsky.social worldadaptationforum.org

“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”

All you ever wanted to know about emergency planning. On new #RTEBrainstorm @researchireland.ie podcast, Ronan Kelly talks to Caroline McMullan @dublincityuni.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social & Mark Maguire @maynoothuniversity.ie about how you plan for the unplannable www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

For some reason I'm reminded of this. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Really looking forward to reading this!

📢 7 days to go! A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025. Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

"For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal."

I haven't seen such a clear and direct articulation of where the US is going from sitting senator (though she's just in the door). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO...

No surprise here, The Line 'undone by the laws of physics and finance", which is pretty similar to what will undo our civilization.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Euractiv's @claudiemoreau.bsky.social on our complaint to the European Commission against Ireland's appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner www.euractiv.com/news/complai...

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

The question of this moment is whether Europe will be a bastion of democratic resilience or a vassal. My piece in Tech Policy Press. www.techpolicy.press/europe-isnt-...

Looking forward to reading this.

This is the third story in the past week detailing how natural carbon sinks are starting to falter. We don’t know nearly enough about how these tipping points could play out, but the potential for genuinely terrifying outcomes should be obvious by now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW systemic risk tool STEER launches today! STEER is a guidance framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks and spot gaps in current approaches, especially as tipping points are a plausible near-term reality. Great work by my @asranetwork colleagues. steer.asranetwork.org

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

This is a thing we need!

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

l'économie, C'est Moi!

On modern autocracies. With Brad Carr youtu.be/mqXOLNnqoeA?...

There's plenty of blame to go around, incl. the failing EPA licensing system which failed to prevent the repeated pollution events which would undoubtedly have weakened the resilience of any wildlife in the river,making them more vulnerable to whatever pollutant ultimately caused the huge fish kill.

Cos Finland is a serious country. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Precisely the question I keep asking myself: 'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

I'm sure he's up to no good, but would be very curious to know who he's up to no good with.

Well done, John! Have begun the excellent book- got me reflecting on Irish agricultural change over the last 60 years (and summers with my farmer godfather in Kildare in the 70's). Thanks also for the opportunity to re-connect with said crowd.

If they did, Bragg would be paired with an unfunny comedian to help the medicine go down.

Looking forward to visiting Limerick next Wednesday evening to take part in a public interview in O’Mahony’s Bookstore to mark the launch of my new book - copies on display already!

Pleased to share our new @ASRA Network paper in Nature Communications. Focuses on 2 past food-energy crises 2 show how existing RM approaches need an upgrade for our global polycrisis. We present a new framework to assess interconnected risks and crises. Read the paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Space! Nuclear! Moon! As the integration and continuity of civilisation begins to de-stabilize, such grand projects are the unconscious stories we tell of our own starry greatness to protect us from confronting the chasm opening beneath our feet. However, it's a particularly f**king stupid example.

The @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social Nice people doing great work on global systemic risk, if your looking for an interesting job! However, i suspect an outbreak of worrying optimism "solutions for a healthy, just, and resilient world. "😉

EU: launches new integrative Stockpiling & Medical Countermeasures Strategies, as part of the Preparedness Union Strategy, "ensuring continuity of essential goods & lifesaving medical supplies at all times..." #societalresilience civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories...

Back from @ASRA Symposium on systemic risk. Ran a workshop- "Can We Prepare for Catastrophic Systemic Failure? An Interactive Exercise." Hard to imagine another symposium running such a topic (irreversible fast collapse of civilization) coupled with such high-level, policy-relevant participants.

It's been a great to give a workshop/scenario/exercise at the #ASRA Currents of Change Symposium near Paris. Can't imagine another forum that would host such a topic, and bring together such informed + relevant participants: Can We Prepare for Catastrophic Systemic Failure? An interactive exercise.

I’m looking forward to @ASRA Network’s Currents of Change symposium, the first transdisciplinary, global symposium dedicated to action on systemic risk. More here: www.asranetwork.org/news/current...

I'd bet euro28 billion of my own money that this penalty will never have to be paid. Reasonable likelihood the global economy will have been so destabilized by then that anthropogenic emissions will have collapsed.

Adults in the room.

Mike Ryan is leaving the WHO. Would make an excellent candidate to head up a new National Resilience and Contingency Agency for Ireland. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social

Enjoying listening to @willdalrymple.bsky.social and Anita on @empirepoduk.bsky.social. Looked up H-K based Jardine Matheson website- it's corporate logo today is- an opium poppy! Either the Chinese don't mind, or Jardines don't care. Still, curious.

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Russia has offered the United States to fight "Eurofascism" together. The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published an article about European "fascism." It is about fascism in Britain and France, which Washington and Moscow allegedly opposed together in the international arena.

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

Heartbreaking scenes from Sumy this morning as residents gathered for Palm Sunday only to be met by Russian missiles. Horrific example of Russia intensifying attacks while Ukraine has accepted an unconditional ceasefire. My thoughts are with the Ukrainian people today.

Read the changing world- raising the passenger cap is a distraction- a figment of being wedded to expectations formed in another age. Passengers will not keep rising. They may hold steady a while, they will fall, they will collapse. Like the rest of the global economy.