Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed is an award-winning systems theorist, multimedia journalist (VICE, Guardian) and communications strategist for over 20 years. He is a former Strategy Director at Unitas Communications Ltd where he led campaigns for the UN, Friends of the Earth, the TENT Foundation for Refugees, Said Foundation, Dechert LLP, among others. He is a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, a Commissioner for the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission, and an advisor to the Global Citizens Assembly for COP26. He is the author of seven books, including A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it, the first peer-reviewed study of the interconnections between climate, food, energy, the economy, terror, war, and state-militarisation. His film, The Crisis of Civilization, has had over three quarters of a million views online. Nafeez has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sussex School of Global Studies.
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Largest EU economy can reach 100% ‘clean energy’ by 2035 for less than fossil fuel spending
Germany can shift its entire electricity system onto solar, wind and batteries by 2030 for less than 1% of its GDP. And the country’s entire energy system can go 100% clean energy by 2035 for less than what it spends on fossil fuels. In 10-15 years, Germany can change everything, …
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spark global food riots – the solution is precision fermentation
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is about to set in motion a chain of feedback effects leading to a sudden, rapid escalation of global political instability. Various UN agencies, and now the IMF, have warned of social unrest at a similar scale to the ‘Arab Spring’ events in 2011. What few understand is …
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How Energy Disruption Led to Russia-Ukraine Crisis – and How the Crisis Will Accelerate Disruption
Conventional analysts are looking at the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the lens of military strategy and geopolitical rivalry. But the invasion and its geopolitical consequences can only be properly understood in the context of wider transformations in the global economy, driven by disruptions unfolding across every major sector, namely, …
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JP Morgan’s misinformation on the clean energy disruption – a handy guide
The JP Morgan Asset and Wealth Management Annual Energy Paper is one of the most influential publications among global investment and business leaders in the energy sector. But JP Morgan Chase’s 2021 Annual Energy Paper is a deeply flawed piece of work that promotes some serious misinformation about the …
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The Next Economy: Why the growth and degrowth debate misses the point
During COP 26, as he was on route to the G20 summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had an extraordinary message. Civilization could collapse “like the Roman empire”, he warned, “unless we get this right in tackling climate change.” “Humanity, civilization and society can go backwards as well as forwards …
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Unimaginable Clean Energy Abundance Could Be Ours – Ending the Age of Resource Scarcity Part 2
It’s often thought that clean energy represents a transition from cheap, abundant fossil fuels to expensive, scarce renewables. In this analysis, we will explore how this fear has it exactly backwards: in reality, the clean energy disruption will usher in a fundamental transformation in the way we produce energy, one …
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Ending the Age of Resource Scarcity Part 1 – Why mineral shortages won’t derail clean energy
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. Increasingly, some argue that it entails a net decrease in the energy available to societies, and therefore warn of an unavoidable decline in material prosperity …
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