Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A few weeks ago, I posted a video about the silver linings to this crisis and quarantine. Now that countries are either opening up or announcing plans to do so, I wanted to make another video looking back on what we’ve learned from this.
Photo: Boleslaus I monument in Wrocław masked during coronavirus pandemic April 2020. Photo by Fallaner. Via Wikimedia Commons
Two major reports released this year tell a grim story: Global freedom continues to decline and the US has lost its longstanding classification a liberal democracy. But hope lies in the data.
October 2, 2026
The nation-state model sustains itself on the logic that nature – and colonized peoples – are things to be conquered, assimilated, dominated, and exploited. It’s time for an Earth-centered form of governance.
October 1, 2026
Water, that vital element, is an invasive presence in the documentary Displaced on the Island of Java: A Village Sinking into the Sea.
October 1, 2026
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