# Latest **URL:** https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/latest.md?page=2 [Latest](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/tags.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [The Future of Human Civilisation is African](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-future-of-human-civilisation-is-african/225)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [21 June 2023 18:13 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-future-of-human-civilisation-is-african/225 "2023-06-21T18:13:04Z")
After visiting the Gambia in December 2022 – one of the most vulnerable countries in Africa, if not the world, to the devastating impacts of global heating – I realised that while the world needs to understand the tremen… --- ## [First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing Arctic tipping point](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/first-stage-of-abrupt-climate-catastrophe-has-begun-by-crossing-arctic-tipping-point/222)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [13 June 2023 20:26 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/first-stage-of-abrupt-climate-catastrophe-has-begun-by-crossing-arctic-tipping-point/222 "2023-06-13T20:26:16Z")
We've entered a dangerous new era for humanity - the era of accelerating climate breakdown. This can no longer be avoided: the task ahead is to adapt, mitigate, and do as much as we can to transform our systems so that w… --- ## [The Fossil Fuel Energy Cliff and the Great Oversimplification](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-fossil-fuel-energy-cliff-and-the-great-oversimplification/220)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [5 June 2023 21:26 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-fossil-fuel-energy-cliff-and-the-great-oversimplification/220 "2023-06-05T21:26:53Z")
Are we moving into a low energy future? Is this what ‘the science’ really says beyond doubt? Is it even the right question? This debate was thrust into the spotlight recently when Dr Nate Hagens who runs The Great Simpli… --- ## [AI and the Global Phase-Shift: How AI Will Really Change the World](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/ai-and-the-global-phase-shift-how-ai-will-really-change-the-world/217)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [26 May 2023 13:37 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/ai-and-the-global-phase-shift-how-ai-will-really-change-the-world/217 "2023-05-26T13:37:51Z")
Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world, but exactly how remains hotly contested. Most commentators including AI insiders have, however, overlooked the real issue: This is a companion discussion topi… --- ## [Energy transformation won’t be derailed by lack of raw materials](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/energy-transformation-won-t-be-derailed-by-lack-of-raw-materials/211)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [14 May 2023 20:29 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/energy-transformation-won-t-be-derailed-by-lack-of-raw-materials/211 "2023-05-14T20:29:34Z")
If you see something bad hurtling toward you, run in the exact opposite direction. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/energy-transformation-wont-be-derailed-… --- ## [AI doomers are wrong. The 'existential threat' is about who controls information - not the singularity](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/ai-doomers-are-wrong-the-existential-threat-is-about-who-controls-information-not-the-singularity/213)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 May 2023 12:38 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/ai-doomers-are-wrong-the-existential-threat-is-about-who-controls-information-not-the-singularity/213 "2023-05-11T12:38:58Z")
The internet is awash with claims that artificial intelligence could end up wiping out humanity. But how real is this risk? This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org… --- ## [America’s Fossil Fuel Economy is Heading for Collapse – It Signals the End of the Oil Age](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/america-s-fossil-fuel-economy-is-heading-for-collapse-it-signals-the-end-of-the-oil-age/203)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [24 March 2023 14:04 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/america-s-fossil-fuel-economy-is-heading-for-collapse-it-signals-the-end-of-the-oil-age/203 "2023-03-24T14:04:13Z")
The global economy is currently teetering on the edge of a banking crisis. The IPCC has just released its final major report warning that global carbon emissions need to peak and decline immediately if we are to avoid pl… --- ## [The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-uae-president-of-cop28/201)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [14 March 2023 13:11 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-uae-president-of-cop28/201 "2023-03-14T13:11:48Z")
The world has a problem: Big Oil’s hijacking of the climate action narrative. The power of the legacy energy industry means that mountains of flawed and backwards thinking – much of which contributed to the climate crisi… --- ## [The Next Decade Will Be The Most Pivotal in History: This is the Global Phase-Shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-next-decade-will-be-the-most-pivotal-in-history-this-is-the-global-phase-shift/200)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 March 2023 10:06 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-next-decade-will-be-the-most-pivotal-in-history-this-is-the-global-phase-shift/200 "2023-03-12T10:06:35Z")
A Nasa space scientist, water management engineer and AI chatbot programmer walk into a bar. It sounds like the beginning of a terribly bizarre joke, but what if I told you that the work these three individuals do might … --- ## [South Africa's blackouts signal the collapse of Big Coal in the global phase-shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/south-africas-blackouts-signal-the-collapse-of-big-coal-in-the-global-phase-shift/199)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [3 March 2023 12:48 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/south-africas-blackouts-signal-the-collapse-of-big-coal-in-the-global-phase-shift/199 "2023-03-03T12:48:03Z")
Over the last year, several analysts have warned that South Africa is on the brink of collapse. Some argued that the prime culprit is endemic political corruption preventing the country from dealing with worsening econom… --- ## [The world's only newsletter on the 'global phase-shift'](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-worlds-only-newsletter-on-the-global-phase-shift/197)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 March 2023 16:40 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-worlds-only-newsletter-on-the-global-phase-shift/197 "2023-03-02T16:40:37Z")
We are in the midst of the biggest and most disruptive civilisational transformation in human history. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/the-worlds-only-new… --- ## [I predicted the 2008 crash, the 2018 stock market dive, and the next crisis](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/i-predicted-the-2008-crash-the-2018-stock-market-dive-and-the-next-crisis/189)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [9 November 2022 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/i-predicted-the-2008-crash-the-2018-stock-market-dive-and-the-next-crisis/189 "2022-11-09T01:00:00Z")
Over the last two decades, my work as a systems theorist, academic and journalist has frequently anticipated major world events and trends. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftr… --- ## [The self-invention of Maajid Nawaz: Fact and fiction in the life of the counter-terror celebrity](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-self-invention-of-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-in-the-life-of-the-counter-terror-celebrity/188)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [13 January 2021 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-self-invention-of-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-in-the-life-of-the-counter-terror-celebrity/188 "2021-01-13T01:00:00Z")
Maajid Nawaz, a native Briton of Pakistani background, tells a compelling personal story of his odyssey from extremist Islam to enlightenment. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageo… --- ## [This is how we end deforestation to avert pandemic, climate and societal collapse](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-we-end-deforestation-to-avert-pandemic-climate-and-societal-collapse/187)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [4 August 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-we-end-deforestation-to-avert-pandemic-climate-and-societal-collapse/187 "2020-08-04T02:00:00Z")
The COVID-19 pandemic did not come out of the blue. It was a symptom of the fundamental structures of industrial civilisation, and it is an early warning signal for how this civilisation is rapidly eroding the very condi… --- ## [Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/green-economic-growth-is-an-article-of-faith-devoid-of-scientific-evidence/186)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [7 July 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/green-economic-growth-is-an-article-of-faith-devoid-of-scientific-evidence/186 "2020-07-07T02:00:00Z")
For years, financial institutions and governments have been focused on the idea of ‘decoupling’ GDP growth from resource use. This has been driven by the recognition that to stay within the ‘safe limit’ of 2 degrees Cels… --- ## [Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/185)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [19 June 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/185 "2020-06-19T02:00:00Z")
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageof… --- ## [White Supremacism and the Earth System](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system/184)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [5 June 2020 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system/184 "2020-06-05T02:00:00Z")
The US is on the brink of becoming a racist failed state. It is no accident that this terrible moment arrives in the midst of a global pandemic; an escalating economic crisis; an oil sector meltdown. This is a perfect st… --- ## [This is how America and Britain are maximising coronavirus deaths](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-america-and-britain-are-maximising-coronavirus-deaths/183)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [12 March 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/this-is-how-america-and-britain-are-maximising-coronavirus-deaths/183 "2020-03-12T01:00:00Z")
If you search on the web for the term ‘coronavirus bloodbath’ (which I did after I noticed the term occurring repeatedly in the press), you’ll notice that the headlines are not about the mass deaths of vulnerable people … --- ## [Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift/182)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 March 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/coronavirus-synchronous-failure-and-the-global-phase-shift/182 "2020-03-02T01:00:00Z")
Five years ago, the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, an independent panel of distinguished scientists, issued a landmark report warning that over the next century, the world would inevitably e… --- ## [How the West built Huawei’s genocidal surveillance complex in China](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-the-west-built-huawei-s-genocidal-surveillance-complex-in-china/181)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [30 January 2020 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/how-the-west-built-huawei-s-genocidal-surveillance-complex-in-china/181 "2020-01-30T01:00:00Z")
To the chagrin of the Donald Trump administration, Boris Johnson’s government is allowing Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G network — except its more “security critical” components including anything related to military … --- ## [West’s ‘dust bowl’ future now ‘locked in’, as world risks imminent food crisis](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/west-s-dust-bowl-future-now-locked-in-as-world-risks-imminent-food-crisis/180)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [31 December 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/west-s-dust-bowl-future-now-locked-in-as-world-risks-imminent-food-crisis/180 "2019-12-31T01:00:00Z")
The ‘locked in’ impacts of climate change are bound to produce “severe” impacts on societies over the next decades, according to new research sponsored by one of the world’s biggest financial agencies. Among those impact… --- ## [Documents confirm UK govt kept door open to US interests in NHS](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-confirm-uk-govt-kept-door-open-to-us-interests-in-nhs/179)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 November 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-confirm-uk-govt-kept-door-open-to-us-interests-in-nhs/179 "2019-11-28T01:00:00Z")
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has just announced that a dossier of 451-pages of secret government documents prove once and for all that Boris Johnson and the Conservative government have been in trade-talks with the … --- ## [The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-flawed-social-science-behind-extinction-rebellion-s-change-strategy/178)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 October 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-flawed-social-science-behind-extinction-rebellion-s-change-strategy/178 "2019-10-28T01:00:00Z")
We face a planetary emergency. It is, simultaneously, a national emergency — not just for the UK, where I write this from, but for every country in the world. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry… --- ## [The global pandemic of anti-Muslim genocidal violence](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-global-pandemic-of-anti-muslim-genocidal-violence/177)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 August 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-global-pandemic-of-anti-muslim-genocidal-violence/177 "2019-08-01T02:00:00Z")
Although death toll figures are often hotly contested due to their moral and political implications, even the most conservative figures demonstrate a colossal scale of deaths, raising urgent questions about the legitimac… --- ## [War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/war-empire-and-racism-in-the-anthropocene/176)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 June 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/war-empire-and-racism-in-the-anthropocene/176 "2019-06-28T02:00:00Z")
The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance… --- ## [Former Naval officer exposes flaws in US intel on Iran oil tanker attack](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/former-naval-officer-exposes-flaws-in-us-intel-on-iran-oil-tanker-attack/175)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [20 June 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/former-naval-officer-exposes-flaws-in-us-intel-on-iran-oil-tanker-attack/175 "2019-06-20T02:00:00Z")
The US government says that the evidence, including fragments of an exploded weapon and a magnet from an unexploded device, indicates that limpet mines were attached to the side of the oil tankers. The statement of a US … --- ## [Documents reveal Hollywood cover-up of Pentagon’s sex crime problem](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-reveal-hollywood-cover-up-of-pentagon-s-sex-crime-problem/174)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [31 May 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/documents-reveal-hollywood-cover-up-of-pentagon-s-sex-crime-problem/174 "2019-05-31T02:00:00Z")
The US military has a sexual assault problem. But internal documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal that Hollywood has worked closely with the Pentagon to conceal the extent of the problem from public aware… --- ## [Escaping extinction through paradigm shift](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/escaping-extinction-through-paradigm-shift/173)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 May 2019 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/escaping-extinction-through-paradigm-shift/173 "2019-05-11T02:00:00Z")
For the last month, as a journalist and academic, I’ve experienced a strange sensation of paralysis. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/escaping-extinction-th… --- ## [Erdogan worked “hand in glove” with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/erdogan-worked-hand-in-glove-with-isis-in-syria-claims-former-emir/172)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [3 April 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/erdogan-worked-hand-in-glove-with-isis-in-syria-claims-former-emir/172 "2019-04-03T01:00:00Z")
In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of “common interest”. This is a companion discussion … --- ## [The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-conservative-party-is-incubating-the-racism-behind-new-zealand-terror/171)
**Author:** [@system](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [16 March 2019 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/the-conservative-party-is-incubating-the-racism-behind-new-zealand-terror/171 "2019-03-16T01:00:00Z")
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this de… [Previous page](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/latest.md?page=1) [Next page](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/latest.md?page=3)