Not a day goes by when I'm not yet again convinced the #Fediverse is the *only* solution to the #polycrisis facing the Internet. I'm not saying it solves all the problems, and we've certainly got problems of our own.

Yet any fruitful discussion of "how to fix a broken Internet" which doesn't *start* with Fediverse and #IndieWeb principles right out of the gate is doomed to failure.

The path ahead of us is clear. Let's not keep falling into the trap of trusting capitalism will somehow save us.

Not a day goes by when I'm not yet again convinced the #Fediverse is the *only* solution to the #polycrisis facing the Internet. I'm not saying it solves all the problems, and we've certainly got problems of our own.

Yet any fruitful discussion of "how to fix a broken Internet" which doesn't *start* with Fediverse and #IndieWeb principles right out of the gate is doomed to failure.

The path ahead of us is clear. Let's not keep falling into the trap of trusting capitalism will somehow save us.

Just published a new short ebook, How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis.

It is for people in mission-driven organisations who are trying to make better decisions when their old mental models keep failing.

Details and download / pay-what-you-want: https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/polycrisis-ebook/

#polycrisis #systemsthinking #criticalthinking #nonprofits

Just published a new short ebook, How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis.

It is for people in mission-driven organisations who are trying to make better decisions when their old mental models keep failing.

Details and download / pay-what-you-want: https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/polycrisis-ebook/

#polycrisis #systemsthinking #criticalthinking #nonprofits

Third and final post in my series about mental models during a polycrisis.

This ones about why some organisations manage to rethink their shared mental models, and others stay stuck with yesterday’s assumptions.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-models-polycrisis-3/

#MentalModels #Polycrisis #systemsThinking #Sensemaking

Third and final post in my series about mental models during a polycrisis.

This ones about why some organisations manage to rethink their shared mental models, and others stay stuck with yesterday’s assumptions.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-models-polycrisis-3/

#MentalModels #Polycrisis #systemsThinking #Sensemaking

A lot of advice these days still assumes crises are isolated events.

But in a polycrisis the overall impact of these events exceeds the sum of each part.

Our old, linear mental models do not cope well with feedback loops, time delays, and structural risk.

In this post, I talk about epistemic humility, three bias-aware habits to cultivate, and why mental models sit at the root of systems change.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-models-polycrisis/

#polycrisis #mentalmodels #systemsthinking #complexsystems #climate #ai

Friends, we're all increasingly overwhelmed as a baseline (except for some luckily privileged people &/or sociopaths). That means when we are acutely overwhelmed, it is tough.

Please give grace to yourself & others to the extent you can.

Please take care of the small animal that is your body.

Please let go of anything that's not necessary (you probably already have, I know).

Please reach out, please offer help, as/when you can. 1/n

I hope we can get each other through somehow.

#Polycrisis

Friends, we're all increasingly overwhelmed as a baseline (except for some luckily privileged people &/or sociopaths). That means when we are acutely overwhelmed, it is tough.

Please give grace to yourself & others to the extent you can.

Please take care of the small animal that is your body.

Please let go of anything that's not necessary (you probably already have, I know).

Please reach out, please offer help, as/when you can. 1/n

I hope we can get each other through somehow.

#Polycrisis

@inquiline great piece, that puts many alarming but solidly proven findings in one place!

not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics. And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour

leading to

lobbyists are fighting to protect the ability of plastics producers to keep on producing

and

Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of the growth in oil demand by 2030, and nearly half of the growth by 2050. Needless to say, the petrochemical firms’ sustainability agenda consists of advocating for recycling, rather than production curbs

emphasis mine, since

Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled

and then they detail several known harms from plastic itself, from human health to choked animals.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/plastic-planet/

#oil #plastic #fossilfuels #politics #oilAndGas #polycrisis

@inquiline great piece, that puts many alarming but solidly proven findings in one place!

not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics. And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour

leading to

lobbyists are fighting to protect the ability of plastics producers to keep on producing

and

Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of the growth in oil demand by 2030, and nearly half of the growth by 2050. Needless to say, the petrochemical firms’ sustainability agenda consists of advocating for recycling, rather than production curbs

emphasis mine, since

Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled

and then they detail several known harms from plastic itself, from human health to choked animals.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/plastic-planet/

#oil #plastic #fossilfuels #politics #oilAndGas #polycrisis

We @scientistrebellion_GER are currently showing our exhibit "Blind Spot Intervention" at the conference "Tough conversations in tough times" organised by the RIFS.

Join us at 3 for a session where we will give a guided tour of the exhibit, provide input on our actions, and read from @FerRacimo 's book "Science in Resistance".

Looking forward to more tough conversations today and tomorrow.
#climatecrisis #polycrisis #academia #activism #civildisobedience

Strange combination of German & “Global South” perspectives … gives these 2026 predictions:

“the turbulence of 2025 points to a world in which power is diffuse, alliances are fluid and order is uncertain.

We are… in the [analogy of] year 1910 – only that in addition to the risks of that time, there are also nuclear weapons, digital networks and planetary dangers.”

https://archive.is/azvsH

Image: random stuff from my collection about #Polycrisis

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#LiveLikeTheWorldIsDying

your #podcast for what feels like the end times

"How do we live in a world that might be ending? By preparing to survive that end and by working to prevent it. Live Like the World is Dying features interviews with people who think about how to prepare for and survive crises."

About the Host:

"Margaret Killjoy is an author, musician, crafter, and general jack of all trades. She has spent most of her adult life on the road, but is currently nestled into the #Appalachian mountains. Politically, she is an #anarchist: she believes that society would be better off without systems of #hierarchy and #oppression such as the state, #capitalism, #WhiteSupremacy, #patriarchy, and the like. She is a trans woman and her pronouns are she/her, but she also believes in the abolition of gendered language and has no problem with people using the singular 'they' to refer to her."

https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/

#AnarchistPodcasts #USPol #WorldPol #Polycrisis

I want to hear from people who have made lifestyle changes in response to climate change.

Do you travel less / fly less? Eat differently? Shop differently?

I'm interested in what changes you've made specifically in response to climate change, when you started, and what got you to the tipping point of taking that action.

1/n

#ClimateChange #Polycrisis #Travel #Diet #Food #Hopepunk #Solarpunk