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Jan 23, 2024 · 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.
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Jan 26, 2018 · We love to talk about the end of the world, maybe because it makes us feel less alone in knowing that we are all going to end someday. "Apocalyptic beliefs make existential threats—the fear of our mortality—predictable," a psychologist told Scientific American magazine back in 2012 (when we thought the world might end because of a Mayan ...
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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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...
Apr 16, 2020 · It was reading about doomsday preppers, and luxury survival bunkers, and realizing that I’d found, in the idea of people preparing for the end of the world, something that could give shape to my formless obsessions and anxieties.
20 perfect places to survive the end of the world. 1 of 20. The Doomsday Clock reads two minutes to midnight. We've literally never been closer to global annihilation. So we've found a few...
If I'm confronting the end of the world, I want to do so at one of the geographic ends of the world: Patagonia, the place I consider the most naturally beautiful and wild at once.
