ACADEMIC
Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement
with Michael Lawrence, Scott Janzwood, Johan Rockström, Ortwin Renn, and Jonathan F. Donges | Multiple global crises have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood.
Earth’s Polycrisis Is No Mere Illusion
with Michael Lawrence and Scott Janzwood | The backlash against the "polycrisis" neologism is well under way. But the polycrisis idea can motivate urgent scientific investigation into the architecture of global crisis interaction.
A big bet on geothermal could help prevent a climate catastrophe
Directly under our feet, there’s enough heat emanating from the planet’s core to satisfy humanity’s future zero-carbon electricity needs thousands of times over.
Getting to Enough: How we’ll solve the dilemma that’s destroying our world
Avoiding Mad Max and finding a path to a positive future
The Roubini Cascade: Are we heading for a Greater Depression?
with Michael Lawrence | This research involves a system map of Nouriel Roubini’s argument that the world is heading into a Greater Depression.
Synchronous Failure: The Emerging Causal Architecture of Global Crisis
by Thomas Homer-Dixon et al. | Recent global crises reveal an emerging pattern of causation that could increasingly characterize the birth and progress of future global crises. A conceptual framework identifies this pattern’s deep causes, intermediate processes, and ultimate outcomes.