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.

Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades

Deforestation and rampant resource use is likely to trigger the 'irreversible collapse' of human civilization unless we rapidly change course

VICE

'Green Economic Growth' Is a Myth

There are 'no realistic scenarios' to make the economic growth demanded by capitalism compatible with a safe climate, researchers who advised the United Nations found

VICE

SAGEGATE: Government Still Chasing ‘Long-Term Herd Immunity’ Through Recurrent Waves of COVID-19

Analysis of new documents from the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies shows that the quest for herd immunity, through several waves of the Coronavirus over a number of years, has not gone away

Byline Times

Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence

Crack team that advised UN Global Sustainable Development Report settle a longstanding debate with hard empirical data

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SAGEGATE – Part Three: Cummings and Johnson Defied Scientific Advisors by Lifting Restrictions Without Robust Track and Trace

The third part of Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation shows how public health was sacrificed to ideology as the lockdown was eased

Byline Times

SAGEGATE – Part Two: How Herd Immunity was Imposed on Government’s Science Advisory Group On Dominic Cummings’ Watch

Nafeez Ahmed investigates how the adoption of the outlandish policy, which would have led to half a million deaths, coincided with the presence of Boris Johnson’s controversial chief advisor

Byline Times

SAGEGATE – Part One: Treasury and Downing Street Advisors Delayed COVID-19 Lockdown

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how outside pressure weighed on SAGE to prioritise ‘supply chains’, the ‘wider economy’, ‘workforce’ and ‘business’

Byline Times

SAGEGATE: How Government Neutered Science to Save the Economy and Chase the Ghost of Herd Immunity

After a comprehensive investigation into five months of SAGE documents, Nafeez Ahmed arrives at some shocking findings

Byline Times

Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists

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Europe must prepare for life after oil

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to leave the fossil fuel era behind. Europe needs to begin preparing for what comes next.

European Policy Centre

White Supremacism and the Earth System

The protests, the pandemic, and the planet: from systemic decline to civilizational renewal

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WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: THE AI SUPERSTATE Part Two – Is COVID-19 Fast-Tracking a Eugenics-Inspired Genomics Programme in the NHS?

Nafeez Ahmed explores the troubling implications and assumptions of the Government’s AI-driven gene programme

Byline Times

WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: THE AI SUPERSTATE Part One – The Corporate Money Behind Health Surveillance

The first part of Nafeez Ahmed’s major investigation into the money, men and motivation behind a massive move into medical data

Byline Times

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil

Friends of Europe

The Light at the End

The pandemic is remaking who we are. It is an opening to a new world where our capacity to love each other is integral to our survival.

YES! Magazine

WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: Vote Leave Firm Tied to Cambridge Analytica ‘Configured’ NHSX Contact Tracing App

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how concerns around privacy and trust in the UK Government’s centralised COVID-19 tracing system are matched by doubts about its effectiveness

Byline Times

The Coronavirus Crisis: Government Anticipated More Than A Million COVID-19 Deaths But Refused to Take Action for Three Weeks

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how minutes from the NERVTAG estimated up to of 1,333,330 fatalities from the Coronavirus as far back as 21 February

Byline Times

This is hastening the end of the oil era

Crashing oil prices will wreak havoc, increasing the urgency of moving to renewable energy

The Boston Globe

Will Covid-19 end the age of Big Oil?

Le Monde diplomatique

The Coronavirus Crisis: Documents Reveal Government and NERVTAG Breached Own Scientific Risk Assessment Guidance

Evidence investigated by Nafeez Ahmed and Rupert Read shows UK pandemic planning broke the ‘precautionary principle’

Byline Times

The pandemic may bring the fossil fuel era to an abrupt end

The Toronto Star

COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Leaked Home Office Call Reveals Government wants Economy to ‘Continue Running’ as ‘We Will All Get’ COVID-19 Anyway

Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a ‘zombie herd immunity’ policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths

Byline Times

Disaster Capitalism: Conservative Party Donor Cashes in on UK Government-made PPE Shortages Amidst COVID19 Crisis

Nafeez Ahmed reports on the new contract with the giant haulage firm whose executive chairman has donated nearly £1m to the Tories

Byline Times

The Coronavirus Crisis: Eight Week Suppression Strategy Could Stop COVID-19 in its Tracks, says Ex-WHO Director

Nafeez Ahmed speaks to Dr Anthony Costello about where the approach of the UK and US Governments to the Coronavirus pandemic is faltering and why both administrations have been relying too heavily on modelling

Byline Times