Substance #0004
It’s time they heard from you on societal breakdown
Over the past months, a few new terms have appeared in the news as pundits seek frameworks to explain what is happening around the world. I have read that we are in a period of polycrisis, or permacrisis, or even World War 3. There are various reasons offered for why more of us are experiencing tougher and increasingly anxious circumstances. #Permacrisis #Polycrisis #Societal breakdown #Societal collapse
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Accelerate Climate, Energy, and Deep Technologies
By invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is accelerating the deployment of the very technologies that the world needs to wean itself off of fossil fuels and address the challenge of climate change. He’s also set off a chain reaction that will accelerate innovation and deployment of all sorts of deep science and deep technologies involved in clean energy, transportation, manufacturing, mining, and processing of critical materials, aviation, and space.
Humanitarian data and digital infrastructures must be protected against digital threats
We take the floor in this segment on existing and potential threats to alert delegations to a growing threat of cyber operations against humanitarian organizations. We call on you, States, to take cooperative measures to prevent such threats and to ensure that humanitarian organizations are protected online as they are offline. #data #infowar #cybersecurity
A Transatlantic Approach to China in the Global Commons
The rise of China as a global actor has sparked debate in the West over its nature and ultimate wider strategic political and military ambitions, including in the maritime and outer space domains. As global commons, these shared international spaces lie beyond the national jurisdiction of states and are governed by international treaties and frameworks. The potential economic and strategic benefits that lie within these two global commons are immense and, as technological advancements enable greater exploitation, have challenged existing frameworks and the rules that govern these spaces. #Geopolitics #China #Governance #Space
Great Power Competition Is Coming in a melting Arctic that will trouble the world’s population.
Yes, NATO should prepare, as …
Since Feb. 24, the eyes of the world have been fixed on Eastern Europe. But the events unfolding in and around Ukraine portend great changes for another region: the Arctic. Commonly viewed as a “territory of dialogue,” the Arctic has over the past three decades won a reputation as a “zone of peace” marked by exceptionally calm and collaborative security dynamics.
… the Arctic’s meltdown will trouble the population of the world.
Excerpts from an article by Jennifer A. Francis originally published in 2021 in Scientific American. The Age of Humans
“The Arctic is changing exactly the way scientists thought it would but faster than even the most aggressive predictions.
The recent behavior is off the charts. Since just 2015, more than a dozen climate records that had each stood for many decades have crumbled, including those for disappearing summer sea ice, decreasing winter sea ice, warming air and thawing ground. These trends signal trouble for people around the world.
Goodbye, Miami, New Orleans, the naval base in Norfolk, Va., most of New York City and Silicon Valley, as well as Venice, London and Shanghai.
New research suggests that rapid Arctic warming also tends to reroute the jet stream in ways that could allow punishing weather patterns to linger across North America, central Europe and Asia longer than usual, subjecting millions of people to unyielding heat waves, droughts or relentless storms.Plankton are increasing throughout the southern Arctic Ocean, which may disrupt food chains that support commercial fisheries. And the massive ice melt is adding to an enormous blob of freshwater south of Greenland that may be slowing the Gulf Stream, which could significantly change weather patterns for continents on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.“
Now what ?
#Arctic warming #Russia #NATO #Mineral #Security #Meltdown #Jet and Gulf Stream