Infuse Climate Progress into Existing Services
A policy note from Earth Civics, from the June 2026 Resilient Prosperity Forum debrief on midyear climate change negotiations The most significant factor in determining whether climate policies turn into real-world benefits is their ability to support everyday economic activities. “Mainstreaming” is the process of…
Keep readingJobs vs. AI – how to avoid a dystopian future
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses three main threats to human health and wellbeing: Hyperagentic interference is preventable Hyperagentic interference is the extreme scenario, but it is already happening. Reporting around the planning for military strikes against Iran suggests some targeting decisions were made by AI…
Keep readingSM26: Cooperate to prevent chaos
The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (SM26) bring together diplomats, agency directors, experts, and stakeholders, from more than 100 countries. After a year of painful, deadly, and destabilizing shock cuts to development and humanitarian programs, the future of development…
Keep readingAssessing the balance of hidden costs & co-benefits
Industrial activity creates many efficiencies, but it also creates a new problem that human societies have not been able to effectively address—the tendency toward depletion of resources at scale, with speed and effciency that no person or entity can manage or control. That has…
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Loss of critical thinking threatens human freedom
Disinformation advances by degrading our background of factual awareness and the related critical response to new information. Even if we remain skeptical, a reflexive mistrust of evidence can still be an erosion in critical thinking capability; in fact, that is the lever that is used to spread political division and to prevent people from accessing…
Who can you trust?
It is an unfortunate fact of our historical moment that across the world, people seem to be united by a worsening lack of trust in established institutions. There are many reasons for this, but the following stand out as common across the world: All of these dynamics, which are observable in everyday life around the…
