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Jan 23, 2024 · CNN — The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90...
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Oct 18, 2018 · 10 ways the world is most likely to end, explained by scientists. An asteroid got the dinosaurs. Here’s what’s most likely to kill us.
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The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion ; or a supernova .
Jan 23, 2024 · Over the years, the clock has been set further or closer to midnight according to an increasingly diverse range of threats, from nuclear capabilities to climate change. In January, experts ...
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- Swimming Against The Tide of Denial
- The End of The World as We Know It
- Living and Dying Well – Being Taught by Indigenous Modes of Existence
- Cacophony and Kerfuffle – Sitting with Western Modes of Existence
- Towards Growing Up and Showing Up Differently
Education, in its different modalities (formal, non-formal, informal, higher, alternative, etc.), has historically been tasked with steering learning towards objectives that secure human survival as well as the reproduction of cultural norms and ideals. However, this double mandate becomes paradoxical when the reproduction of dominant cultural idea...
Today we face not only the global health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the cascading effects of inequalities, racial and colonial violence, biodiversity loss, economic austerity, precarity and instability, mental health crises, political polarization, large-scale human migration, and more. While some still see the current pandemic as ju...
Many people in climate movements may have heard of the term buen vivir, or living well. The term is often evoked to emphasize a distinction between “living well” and “living better”. “Living better” is commonly promoted in mainstream North American societies and feeds the perceived need to constantly aspire to have more than one has and more than o...
We have also started to map approaches to the climate debate within modernity-coloniality across four different orientations, loosely described in the working social cartography below. We have presented climate justice as a question mark for each orientation, inviting readers to imagine what climate justice would look like in each column. Social ca...
We seek an approach to climate education, inquiry and engagement that could enable us to stay sober and grounded in the face of unprecedented and unpredictable change, and respond to whatever arises without becoming overwhelmed or immobilized. Such an education would prepare us to treat the contemporary crises not as complicated problems to be solv...
Jan 24, 2021 · Building back better must include a focus on reaching net-zero, the energy transition and committing to circular economies and sustainable consumption. The Davos Agenda will mobilize global leaders to build a healthier, more resilient planet. A year ago at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos – heeding the advice of speakers including Greta ...
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A better bet might be the Bolivian Altiplano, the highest area of high plateau outside of Tibet. The whole region lies at an altitude of around 3,750 metres, and what's more, it's a beautiful...
