Certainty abounds in modern discourse! In this week's 'Frankly' I list 17 Things I am 100% Certain about (and subsets thereof I'm less confident in):

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Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point? Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years. Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts.
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Our economy is based on financialization which is the opposite of an economy that is productive or benefits people.

Nathan John Hagens & Not Every Michael Every push the Overton Window on economics!

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#economy #EconomyNews #econtwitter #EconomyMonetary #inflation

Today, I'm joined by global strategist Michael Every for a macro perspective on politics & economics.

What could a wide-view lens tell us about the relationship between seemingly isolated events & the health of our economies?

Full ep: youtu.be/F_DhZaVoflA

Not Every Michael Every

Humans are part of nature, interconnected with every other life form on this planet. A few months ago, Alexa Firmenich and I discussed just a few of the ways we are dependent on the ecological processes around us.

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Alexa Firmenich

This is not your father’s Timbuktu..🌍🌞

Word!

On this week's Frankly, as a follow up to the Geoffrey West episode on the Hidden Laws of Biology, I pose 7 Meta questions on humanity's global social metabolism. These open questions lie at the core of our cultural/planetary dilemma.

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This is most definitely heading in bad direction... Hard for me to focus on other important topics like the environment, or sustainability while this unfolds. The disconnect from elites on the risks is what is most terrifying.

No good options remain. This is one of the worst. Paging Dr Strangelove. (I dearly hope I’m very wrong)

Today's episode with physicist Geoffrey West covers Kleiber's Law - which describes how animals use energy more efficiently as they get larger - and how it might apply to humans and our economies.

Full episode: youtu.be/my9a9Ftr7ek

I watched w sound off. In 20 seconds this video could equally represent a time lapse history of last millennia of humanity/Earth.

After a year full of strange weather, Leon Simons joined me in January to discuss how aerosols might be interacting with climate as explained in 2023 paper, Warming in the Pipeline (Hansen, et al.): academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3….

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Leon Simons

Me too Riane! Thanks for your (many decades of!) curiosity, care and scholarship ~on the issues of our time.

How to navigate The Great Simplification without collapse, nuclear war or biosphere disaster.

Nathan John Hagens explains why the archetypes that worked in the past are not necessarily the ones we need now. The ones we need in a few decades will also be different.

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What sort of archetypes will we need for the 'Fellowship of the Ring' that helps us bring Moloch to Mt Doom?

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This is…. not good. Especially at this early stage-imagine when things get worse?

This week's Frankly applies yet another concept from Tolkien to the modern human predicament. I outline a series of archetypes - present and future - and speculate on what archetypes might now need to join, in 'The Fellowship of the Ring - Bend not Break Version.'

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