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Food Systems Aren’t Meeting Global Needs. Consumers And Farmers Can Change It Together

October 29, 2020

Global food systems are not meeting all the needs of people and planet. Currently, more than two billion people globally are overweight or obese, more than 600 million people fall ill due to…

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Hurricanes And Wildfires Are Colliding With The COVID-19 Pandemic – And Compounding The Risks

August 28, 2020

With the Hurricane Laura hitting Louisiana and Texas as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm and wildfires menacing the western U.S., millions of Americans are facing the complex risks of…

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Coronavirus: Three Ways The Crisis May Permanently Change Our Lives

March 24, 2020

The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing…

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The Flu Pandemic Of 1918: Modern Parallels From A Century-Old Pandemic

March 23, 2020

The influenza pandemic of 1918 (also known as the Spanish flu, even though it didn’t originate in Spain) is among the most severe pandemics in recent history, only second to…

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The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Humans Inc.

March 23, 2020

Depending on the state of the planet and society, the world will reach one of four possible, highly contrasting outcomes by the year 2050. This is the central idea of …

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The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Extinction Express

March 20, 2020

Arup’s recently published white paper, 2050 Scenarios: four plausible futures, discussed how certain choices of humanity at present can lead to one of the four scenarios they have identified. So…

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The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Post Anthropocene

March 18, 2020

The world is in a state of rapid change. Depending on our collective priorities and choices, there are plausible scenarios for the world’s fate in the year 2050. This is…

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Quarantines Have Tried To Keep Out Disease For Thousands Of Years

March 16, 2020

The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine. The practice…

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How Cities Can Prepare For The Next Pandemic

March 13, 2020

According to Johns Hopkins CSSE, the COVID-19 outbreak has recorded more than 20 million confirmed cases and 760,000 fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic,…

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