A Compass for the Anthropocene

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Michael Sales

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January 3, 2023

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Security and Sustainability | Systemic Change | Transformation/Change

This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras last for tens of thousands, if not millions of years. Unfortunately, the Age of Humanity is auditioning to be very short-lived. Humanity is in charge, but it’s evident that, much of the time, we don’t know what the heck we’re doing!

The Security and Sustainability Guide (SSG) is a way to orient yourself to this new era. There are thousands of organizations and tens of thousands of dedicated individuals doing wonderful work on all sorts of wicked problems. The SSG is a reference resource to hundreds of them, and new ones show up constantly. Overtime, the Guide will assist good people in who want to make powerful connections to improve the prospects of life on Earth surviving and thriving.

The COP28 agreement pushed for a transition from fossil fuels to achieve net zero by 2050, but compromises left many provisions ambiguous. This review analyzes those shortcomings including 14 foresight abstracts, categorized into forecasts for the coming decades, reports on required transformative adaptations, and broader assessments of polycrisis and existential risk.

SSG Newslitter – February 2024

Feb 21, 2024

The third Newslitter, slated for 2023’s summer, was to focus on AI’s global uproar. However, due to many large language models, a new theme was required. A New York Times article inspired a focus on “unprecedentedness”, leading to the title “2023: A Year of Peak Unprecedentedness”.

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