Climate Change

Confronting Fascism in the Final Stage of the Life-Cycle of Industrial Civilisation

When we look at the rise of the global far-right through a systems lens, we can recognise that it as a symptom of crisis and collapse - as well as the potential for renewal. Today, humanity stands at a political inflection point in which the only viable path forward involves total transformation.

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We’re Crossing a Global Tipping Point on Fossil Fuels and There’s No Going Back

The post-oil genie's out of the bottle. It ain't ever going back. Get ready for the new world that's emerging.

6 min read

I warned leaders at COP28 that the age of oil is over - with or without ‘phase out’ plan

After decades exposing fossil fuel interests, I've realised it's not about dismantling the old. We must enable the new with finance, technology & system change. The West’s biggest carbon polluters are deflecting from this necessity, in ways that have carefully obscured what really derailed COP28.

11 min read

Dear White Environmentalists: Demanding Fossil Fuel Phase Out is Not Enough

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From BRICS, to Africa, to COP28, we're scaling a geopolitical 'turning point' on climate

A global consensus is emerging – among both clean energy pioneers and even some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers – that the age of oil is over, and that we must do all we can to accelerate the clean transformation of the global energy system in a way that is just.

13 min read

The Collapse of Civilisation is an Unprecedented Opportunity

Collapse is not the end - it's the beginning. The fear and uncertainty of this time signals the obsolescence of old ways of being. As we step into the unknown, truly new ways of being are emerging. Our challenge is to seize on and amplify these opportunities.

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The Future of Human Civilisation is African

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. But the biggest untold story is that Africa represents the future of global civilisation, and the key to a new era of unimaginable abundance within planetary boundaries.

10 min read

First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing Arctic tipping point

This is the era of accelerating climate breakdown. The disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice is now inevitable. We've crossed a dangerous tipping point at risk of triggering others. Yet pathways to transformation over the next 15 years could still pull us back from collapse.

9 min read

Energy transformation won’t be derailed by lack of raw materials

A 1,000 page report influencing IMF, UN and EU policymakers claims we don't have enough materials to support a global shift to clean energy. But the report is deeply flawed, based on indefensible unscientific assumptions, and totally ignores key scientific findings.

33 min read

The Planetary Emergency is a Crisis of Spirituality

The collapse of reductionist materialism is a defining feature of the global phase-shift. The question is, what comes next, and what are we going to do about it?

11 min read

The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28

In my open letter to the UAE President of COP28, I provide an economic and technological reality-check on how his proposed policies expose us to gigantic financial and ecological risks.

16 min read

The Next Decade Will Be The Most Pivotal in History: This is the Global Phase-Shift

Human civilisation is experiencing a Great Metamorphosis in which our energy, politics, economics, culture, values and worldviews are being completely rewritten.

13 min read

This is how we end deforestation to avert pandemic, climate and societal collapse

COVID-19 is an early warning signal for our breaching of planetary boundaries

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

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

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

West’s ‘dust bowl’ future now ‘locked in’, as world risks imminent food crisis

Past climate emissions mean parts of US and Europe will experience devastating drought in 80 years, and a global food crisis could be triggered in the 2020s — yet it’s not too late to build resilience and avert the worst

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
23 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy

White privilege leads to cherry-picked misreadings of data on worldwide struggles of people of colour (and beyond)

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
39 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene

The biophysical-economics and military-logics of industrial hyperreality

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
23 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Escaping extinction through paradigm shift

‘Rebellion’ is not enough. We need to build new systems from the ground up, right now

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
11 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Brexit was triggered by climate-driven collapse in the Middle East

Climate-denying Brexiteers will trigger the next migrant crisis. This is how climate change is unravelling democracy and propelling the authoritarian turn in Britain, Europe and beyond

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

The “disintegration” of global capitalism could unleash world war 3, warns top EU economist

Seeing the systemic roots of this risk can help us avert catastrophe and build resilience

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
12 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How collective intelligence can change your world, right now

An open source toolkit for self and social transformation

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

Brexit: stage one in Europe’s slow-burn energy collapse

The Brexit fiasco and French riots are accelerating symptoms of Europe’s earth system crisis

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise

A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
8 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Global heatwave is symptom of early stage cycle of civilisational collapse

Welcome to a 1C planet: the precursor of an 8C catastrophe in 82 years if we keep burning up fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed