It’s often believed that the clean energy disruption could be fundamentally constrained by resource scarcity in the form of insurmountable raw materials and mineral bottlenecks. Writing for the technology forecasting think-tank RethinkX, I address some of the most notable perspectives that uphold this mythology, and show that if societies make the right choices – and that’s a big ‘if’ – the clean energy disruption can represent a fundamental break with historical patterns of scarcity, and a breakthrough into a new age of energy abundance.

Simplistic, binary thinking is unhelpful in addressing some of our most protracted crises. I’ve long been a critic of Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories, in much the same way that I’ve been critical of many states and governments around the world responsible for repression and human rights violations. But one thing that has increasingly alarmed me is the extent to which erstwhile critics of Israel repeatedly fall into antisemitic tropes in their eagerness to vindicate the Palestinian cause.

I have been reporting vociforously on the global pandemic from multiple angles. On the one hand, I started by attempting to ensure I was providing a big systems lens to help people understand how this happened, what it really means, and where it suggests we’re going.

My first major piece situated the pandemic in the context of a number of systems frameworks, setting out the potential risks of societal and institutional crisis (aka synchronous failure), as well as arguing that it signals the acceleration of a ‘global phase shift’.

Writing on VICE, I broke the story of a new scientific study by two top theoretical physicists modelling the implications of prevailing rates of deforestation. The model found an over 90% chance of societies collapsing in the next two to four decades if deforestation continues. My story generated major global coverage in Futurism, International Business Times, Daily Mail, The Sun, New York Post, EcoWatch, among others.

In October, I wrote for VICE about a US Army report which warned that climate change could lead to the US national power grid to collapse, leading to the almost total collapse of American society - and that US military efforts to respond to the crisis in the homeland might end with the US Army itself collapsing.

In July 2019, I broke an exclusive story via my ‘system shift’ column at VICE, covering a new report which warned that from 2050, global civilization could face the risk of collapse due to the impact of climate change. What made the report especially interesting was that it had been endorsed by a former top Australian military chief. The story went viral and global, reaching up to a hundred million people.

The Atlantic has done an interesting story on the figure of Sam Patten, a longtime Republican political operative. Their story breaks the news of Patten's Russia ties - specifically ties to Russian intelligence - and quotes yours truly on one his startling connections to the Big Data firm everyone's talking about.

HuffPost have credited us for being first to report this story on how Cambridge Analytica advised the UK Foreign Office on how to apply data lessons learned from gaming the US presidential elections to UK foreign policy goals. 

I first unearthed this in December 2017, in an extensive piece which contained numerous other revelations that the global press are only now beginning to catch up on.