Planetary Phase Shift: The Collapse and Renewal of Civilisation
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WhenApril 16, 2025 at 7:30pm - 9pm
Planetary Phase Shift: The Collapse and Renewal of Civilisation
Featuring Dr Nafeez Ahmed
Date: 16 April
Time: 7:30 to 9:00 PM
Location: Auckland, NZ
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81261537250?pwd=yt7vVgavQwhtgCybsAbdFREookifNJ.1
Meeting ID: 812 6153 7250
Passcode: 770186
This webinar will cover a broader range of issues than we typically explore, creating a context for the work we do. Reading the background material below will provide a helpful introduction to the ideas presented in the webinar.
The Webinar
The far-right is resurgent. The United States has been taken over by a technology oligarchy with an alarming technofascist agenda to supercharge hyper-capitalism and fracture democracies. In this seminar and discussion, author, systems theorist and journalist Dr Nafeez Ahmed will draw on his transdisciplinary research into what he calls the “planetary phase shift” to help us make sense of this dangerous moment in the context of the life cycle of civilisations. Ahmed will explore how an unprecedented convergence of ecological, energy, food and economic crises, is paving the way for a great rebirth: an unprecedented emerging possibility space for radical transformation of the foundational systems that define civilisation. In a time of alarm, this is a talk and discussion about what’s truly possible for humanity.
About Nafeez
Nafeez is a globally renowned systems theorist, award-winning investigative journalist and change strategist who has worked with some of the biggest organisations in the world, including United Nations agencies, national governments, Fortune 500 companies, and the world’s largest foundations. He has predicted many of the world’s major events such as the 2008 financial crash and the global rise of the far right as a threat to liberal democracies across the West. He is the creator of the peer-reviewed Planetary Phase Shift collective intelligence framework which he writes about via his newsletter, ageoftransformation.org.
He is Executive Director of the System Shift Lab and Global Head of Research & Communications at Unitas Global Advisory. He is Special Investigations Reporter At Large for Byline Times, and a former journalist for The Guardian and VICE. His work has been praised by the Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian and the New York Times, and he has been published by The Times, The Atlantic, Sydney Morning Herald, Foreign Policy, New York Observer, Boston Globe, New Statesman, Prospect and many others.
He is an Earth4All Transformational Economics Commissioner and Full Member at the Club of Rome, a Distinguished Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and sits on the advisory board of the BioPhysical Economics Institute. Nafeez has twice been featured in the Evening Standard's 'Top 1,000' list of most influential people in London.
Previously he was Research Editor and Director of Global Research Communications at the technology forecasting think-tank RethinkX; a Commissioner at the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change; Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University; Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University and Associate Tutor at University of Sussex’s School of Global Studies.
He is the author of eight books. His latest is Alt Reich published by Byline Books.
Background Material
"Planetary phase shift" as a new systems framework to navigate the evolutionary transformation of human civilisation
This webinar was organized by Our Climate Declaration, and is co-sponsored by The Wise Response Society, Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand, and Engineers for Social Responsibility.