Hey, kids – drop the climate anxiety

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Hey, kids – drop the climate anxiety

by Warp Institute | Sep 19, 2022 | Essays, Climate Change, Column, Premium Content

On a stunning sunny morning on the way to school with my 9-year-old, I open the front door and exclaim: “Welcome to your beautiful world!”My daughter retorts with a sullen look: “No, it’s a terrible, polluted world.”Another time, I...

24 of 26 air pollutants have decreased in Sweden

by Warp Institute | Sep 16, 2022 | Essays, Environment, Mer från mindre

Air pollution is exhaust gases and particles that occur in harmfully high concentrations, usually due to human activity. The negative health effects of air pollution became particularly evident after hundreds, in some cases thousands, of people died as a direct...

The power of sharing: owning less but enjoying more

by Warp Institute | Aug 29, 2022 | Essays, Premium Content

The logic of individualism has been dominant in Western capitalist society over the last century.But it wasn't always like this. For millennia everything had been shared in traditional extended families: from living space between humans and animals, to every...

Our collective intelligence shows why the future is bright

by Warp Institute | Aug 8, 2022 | Essays, Premium Content

This is a premium article, part of our premium content for Premium Supporters. Open for everyone thanks to the premium supporter's generous contributions.WISDOM OF CROWDS, part 2.The first part can be found here.At the Warp Institute we want the future to come...

Wikipedia shouldn’t work, but does so thanks to our collective intelligence

by Warp Institute | Aug 1, 2022 | Essays, Premium Content

WISDOM OF CROWDS, Part 1Wikipedia and democracy not only work – they work better. All thanks to what James Surowiecki calls the Wisdom of Crowds, in the book of the same title.Surowiecki opens the book with an example from 1906 when Francis Galton was given the...

The United States has reached Peak Stuff

by Warp Institute | Jul 25, 2022 | Essays, Premium Content, Human Progress

This is a premium article, part of our content for Premium Supporters, open for everyone thanks to the members' generous contributions.In parts of the world, Coke is sold in new cans. Taller, sleeker and less aluminum is required to make them. In Sweden alone,...