How to respond when life resembles science fiction

Decision-makers must find ways to analyze and anticipate simultaneous crises. All require attention, and all require that attention at once.

An Ottawa cyclist wears a respiratory mask as the city is blanketed in smoke from wildfires. With climate change, the pandemic, and inflation, we are living in a period of 'polycrisis,' writes Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. 'The four horsemen of the apocalypse have no shortage of horses.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

June 26, 2023

In the span of one week, we try to absorb the news that experts in artificial intelligence think it will outrun and outsmart us, leading to human extinction, and that the risk of nuclear war has increased as Russian President Vladimir Putin ramps up his nuclear sabr...

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