Environment

The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift

We are all feeling it. Grief, despair, anxiety, chaos. This essay, which distils the planetary phase shift framework, gives you the tools to see through the chaos to recognise emerging possibilities of a new system that could enable superabundance beyond our wildest imaginations.

39 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.

15 min read

Bangladesh Can Leapfrog the West through Solar Abundance

As I travel to Bangladesh, the home of my ancestors, I reflect on how a country struggling to emerge from the ravages of colonisation faces the unprecedented opportunity to become a solar super power

14 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.

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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.

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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

What South Africa’s blackout ‘collapse’ reveals about the global phase-shift and the death of Big Coal

South Africa is on the brink of societal collapse - a system-failure that represents what can happen if we fail to adapt to the current global phase-shift. With better choices, South Africa could become a hub of sustainable superabundance. That can only happen if we open our eyes to what’s possible.

13 min read

I predicted the 2008 crash, the 2018 stock market dive, and the next crisis

My work has accurately predicted 20 major events over the last 20 years. How? Whole systems intelligence

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
22 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

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
23 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

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

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

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

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

White Supremacism and the Earth System

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

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
26 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

This is how America and Britain are maximising coronavirus deaths

Only radical action and social distancing can avert a bloodbath

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
28 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift

A systems analysis uncovering the light at the end of the tunnel

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
28 min read
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

Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
18 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

2018: the tipping point

My year in review — looking back, looking ahead

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed