Mindset and worldviews shifts for a regenerative future
In this excerpt from the Seeds Series Volume 2, interviewees argue that deeper shifts in consciousness, economics and governance are needed to confront the polycrisis.
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Richard Heinberg: Why building resilience should be our top priority
In this presentation for The Climate Dialogue Group, Richard Heinberg shares his insights into why a world of climate disruption and energy volatility demands a shift from maximizing growth to strengthening community resilience.
Sovereignty and rising sea levels: Climate change is reshaping the meaning of nationhood
As rising sea levels threaten low-lying island nations, questions once confined to legal theory are becoming urgent realities. From Tuvalu to the Maldives, climate change is forcing governments and communities to reconsider what sovereignty and nationhood mean when territory itself is disappearing.
Guide to Staying Human – Part 2: Navigating dread and carrying the weight of tomorrow
Opening with a personal reflection on his own relationship to dread, Nate describes how the chronic anticipation of collapse affects the human nervous system long before any single crisis fully arrives.
Oil, inflation, unrest: The global fallout of the US-Israeli war on Iran
Oil shocks, currency crises, refugee flows and rising geopolitical disorder: analyst and columnist Mihir Sharma explains why the consequences of war with Iran will be felt far beyond the Middle East.
Why this age of polycrisis demands a new kind of peace
As wars escalate, ecological systems collapse, and inequality deepens, traditional, nation-centered ideas of security and peace are no longer sufficient. “Planetary peace” links peace with ecological balance, regenerative economics, social justice, and planetary cooperation in this new human era.
History suggests inequality ends in catastrophe. We need another path
History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.
US policy, gangs and climate change are reshaping Central America
Migration and democratic decline in Central America cannot be understood separately from the intertwined impacts of US intervention, gang violence, economic instability and climate disruption. As droughts, displacement and insecurity deepen, the region faces growing pressure toward both migration and authoritarian rule.
As rising seas threaten nations like Tuvalu, what does survival without land look like?
As low-lying island states face the loss of their territory, new legal and political strategies are emerging to sustain nations in exile. Whether they can preserve sovereignty, identity and cohesion without land remains an open question.
In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – can modernity survive planetary limits?
In a wide-ranging exchange, physicist Tom Murphy and energy scholar Dave Murphy explore the tension between optimism and planetary limits, debating whether modernity can endure or must give way to something entirely new.
How to stay sane in a burning world: The four neural states of the polycrisis
From climate collapse to permanent war, our nervous systems are stuck between numbness and panic. A climate scientist argues that surviving the polycrisis means learning to move deliberately between neural states and building smaller, more grounded movements that protect our ability to care without breaking.
There’s no single path through collapse. It spans multiple systems and perspectives
In his new book, the author argues that without a clearer view of the systems we’re embedded in, as well as our cultural and historical contexts, our responses to the polycrisis will continue to fall short.
