Nafeez M Ahmed

Nafeez M Ahmed

Creator of the Age of Transformation, a newsletter offering systems-thinking for the global phase-shift. Director, Unitas Futures Lab. Founder, System Shift Lab.

Truss’ North Sea Drilling Plan Will Need to Prolong Cost of Living Crisis to Buoy Big Oil Profits

The Government’s own data suggests that Britain’s fossil fuel lobbies want to use the cost of living crisis to keep themselves afloat

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Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Energy Produced by Oil, New Study Finds

New research confirms that renewables have been generating far more net energy than fossil fuels for years

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Ending the Age of Scarcity

The energy, transport, food, information, and materials sectors are all undergoing rapid technological disruption. But with the right choices, we can rapidly build a more just and advanced civilization that provides unprecedented levels of universal and sustainable prosperity.

Project Syndicate

The clean energy transformation: a new paradigm for social progress within planetary boundaries

This paper explores new possibilities that could empower humanity to solve some of its most intractable problems: energy scarcity and volatility, the persistence of food insecurity and malnutrition, global poverty, and widening inequality.

The Club of Rome

Rishi Sunak’s Family Profiting from Ties to Oil Giant Shell

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how every one of the four hopefuls battling to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader is tied to fossil fuels and climate science denial

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The End of the ‘Technological Era’ of Oil, Gas & Coal

Fossil fuels face extinction, but we will still need to grapple with the financial chaos of stranded assets, an unravelling geopolitical order, and dangerous climate change

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Collapse of British Conservativism Will Create a Vacuum that Must Be Filled

With the Conservatives likely to continue their tactics of division and distraction, opposition parties must step up with a new vision

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The World Needs ‘Rapid Climate Cooling’ as 2℃ Overshoot Now Likely, New Research Warns

Scientists are warning that the climate situation is so dire that we will not only need to withdraw carbon from the atmosphere but begin exploring controversial solar geoengineering technologies to cool the planet

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Defence Agencies ‘Accelerating’ Risk of ‘Hothouse Earth’ US Military Study Warns

The actions of government military and intelligence agencies are increasing the ‘hyperthreat’ of climate and environmental change, according to new research

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How Replacing Animal Farming with Microbial Proteins Could Feed the World and Save the Planet

As the prevailing global food system heads toward disaster, scientists are discovering exciting opportunities that could make nutritious food cheap, clean and abundant for all without hurting the planet

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The World Faces a Decade of Global Hunger that Could ‘Irreversibly Degrade Humanity’s Prospects’

Three years ago, Nafeez Ahmed predicted the world could plunge into a long-term global food catastrophe triggered by climate-driven droughts in Asia. Now scientists are warning this could be a precursor to a ‘global polycrisis’

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Charity linked to Viktor Orbán Wants to ‘Take Over’ British Schools to Promote Far-Right Pro-Russia Propaganda

Nafeez Ahmed and Karam Bales report on a ‘free speech’ campaign with ties to the Hungarian Government and its record of curtailing freedom of expression

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UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries

A landmark report by the United Nations concludes that ‘global collapse’ is becoming more likely. But was it watered-down before being published?

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Running Out of Road: Global Transport Systems Supply Chains on Brink of ‘Collapse’, Warns Industry Body

The warning comes as diesel prices have shot up – leading to dramatic losses in profits for transport operators

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Tory Think-Tank Extremism Chief’s Antisemitic Tirade, as Member of Violent Anarchist Group

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the most influential think-tank in Boris Johnson’s Government has ties to an anarchist movement, through its top ‘extremism’ expert

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Global Banks Privately Prepare for ‘Dangerous Levels’ of Imminent Civil Unrest in Western Homelands

Nafeez Ahmed reports on financial institutions preparing for social breakdown as a result of energy and food shocks

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Largest EU economy can reach 100% ‘clean energy’ by 2035 for less than fossil fuel spending

Rethink Disruption

The EU Plan to Expand ‘Hellish’ Repression of Black Migrants

Nafeez Ahmed reveals the European Union’s new defence strategy that promises to scale up an unlawful scheme to forcibly trap migrants in abusive detention camps throughout Africa

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David Cameron Endorses Report Tied to Man he Called ‘Muslim No Go Zone’ “Idiot” and ‘Neo Nazi’ Party

The former Prime Minister has put his support behind a new Policy Exchange report targeting Muslim civil society groups as ringleaders in the ‘enabling’ of terrorism

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spark global food riots – the solution is precision fermentation

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Putin’s War On Net Zero: Controlling ‘Europe’s Breadbasket’ to Prevent Russia’s Fossil Fuel Collapse

Russian Government-backed scientific studies suggest that the war in Ukraine is the world’s first rear-guard military attack on the global climate movement

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UK Extremism Tsar Met Anti-Muslim Witch-Hunt Agency Advised by 'White Genocide' Believer

The Government’s Commission for Countering Extremism appears to be consulting academics enthralled by far-right Great Replacement theories, even as it holds closed meetings with Britain’s security services

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Probe of ‘Criminal’ Health Worker Deaths From Airborne COVID Transmission Blocked by Government

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the UK has been failing to fully protect frontline staff from the pandemic and is now trying to deny its culpability

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Weak Oil: The Looming Collapse of Putin’s Petro Dictatorship

The Kremlin needs a permanent state of hybrid warfare in Europe to stop a global energy system transformation that will unravel Russia’s oligarchic fossil fuel economy

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