Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute has closed, and they issued a final report about why. This is one of many bodies which tried a “multidisciplinarity + best people + biggest problems” a...
A few years after Bill McKibben, May Boeve is also ‘stepping back’ from the climate change activist group 350.org. The first three items on her list of accomplishments are all things I saw fi...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/04/26/may-boeve-stepping-back-at-350-org/
In January, my friend and mentor Peter Russell died. His son Alex invited me to give remarks at his funeral reception: Remarks at the funeral of Peter Russell Yesterday, I spoke at Innis College�...
Over the next few years, as I got to know the Dene better, I learned about how emissaries of the Canadian government had first entered the Dene lands and the conditions under which they negotiate...
Oceans of ink have been spilled arguing that social media and smartphones are the reason young people around the world are not doing well. While there may well be truth to that, to me the whole d...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/26/our-leaders-are-killing-our-kids/
A central assumption of many climate change activists and advocates for climate stability is that once people experience how destructive and painful climate change will be, they will become more ...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/18/what-if-we-never-respond-adaptively-to-climate-change/
Furthermore, intelligence, particularly beyond a certain level, may lead to behaviors that make acquiring or holding on to influence less likely. People who are exceptionally smart think they can...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/08/pfeffer-on-the-limitations-of-intelligence-as-a-path-to-power/
One of the many challenges on the road to fossil fuel abolition is the US-style of bankruptcy, where any valuable assets of a bankrupt corporation or individual are sold to help compensate their ...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/02/26/reform-bankruptcy-to-keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground/
We wrote this book for a specific audience: the segment of the Left who might embrace the label practical radical. These are organizers who hold big visions for transforming society and are willi...
https://www.sindark.com/2023/12/11/bhargava-and-luce-on-practical-radicals/
Tomorrow I am turning forty, which feels like the best guess for the halfway point of my life. In the last couple of years — and especially recent months — I have been feeling incredibly isol...
This weekend I photographed the 2023 Canada-United Kingdom Colloquium: The Global Order Beyond Ukraine: Strategic Priorities for Canada and the United Kingdom
Rather than for academics, my PhD dissertation was always intended more for activists, policy-makers, and concerned citizens. Despite my efforts to make it accessible and limit jargon, however, i...
https://www.sindark.com/2023/11/19/re-writing-my-dissertation-as-a-popular-book/