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Can our current global system coexist with pandemics?

January 3, 2023January 1, 2023 by Kurt Cobb

The COVID pandemic hasn’t ended. We’ve become tired of it and moved on. But nature doesn’t move on just because we do and I’ve been wondering about whether we are in denial because the global system we’ve built simply isn’t compatible with pandemics.

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Life expectancy: The US and Cuba in the time of Covid

September 16, 2022September 15, 2022 by Don Fitz

For the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. The reasons include responses to Covid, health care systems, racism, poverty, misinformation campaigns, the embargo, international solidarity efforts, and resilience to climate change.

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Techno-utopia unravelling: Why complexity is no longer solving our problems

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Kurt Cobb

Many in contemporary global society unconsciously act to create more complexity, thinking it will solve whatever problem presents itself. That very complexity is now giving us negative returns. More of it will almost certainly make matters worse.

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Omicron on the rise: Pandemic as a life lesson for the human species

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

The COVID-19 pandemic is sending the human species important messages. But are we as a species capable of hearing them?

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Vaccine passports, globalism and the threat to humankind

August 16, 2021August 15, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

The Biden administration is about to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all U.S. visitors. The plan is likely to become unworkable in very short order. It is an attempt to get around a now very clear fact about widespread international travel: That travel has become a threat to all humankind.

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Debate over origin of COVID highlights catastrophic systemic risks

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

The debate over COVID’s origin poses vexing questions about potential catastrophic ruin for human society that include the dangers of the genetic manipulation of food crops.

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COVID variants reach escape velocity

March 29, 2021March 28, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

The dense worldwide transportation network constructed by humans is now powering so-called variants (mutations) of COVID-19 across the world from their countries of origin. The British variant (called B.1.1.7), the Brazilian variant (called P.1) and the South African variant (called B.1.351) are all racing across the globe.

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