Summary
Many people around the planet are writing about Planetary Consciousness. We have found important high quality weak and strong signals.
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World War 3
Many Europeans and Americans think World War 3 is imminent
But few Europeans think they can effectively defend themselves from attack
This week sees the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking the end of World War 2 in Europe.
Eight decades after the last great war, the prospect of another global conflict haunts the continent once again, with a new YouGov survey conducted in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain showing that between 41% and 55% in each country think that another world war is likely to occur within the next 5-10 years.
Across the Atlantic in the USA, 45% of Americans share this view.
Space Colonization
How We Might Terraform Mars — and Why It’s So Complicated
Mars has captured imaginations for centuries, from ancient astronomers to modern-day dreamers. It sits as our celestial next-door neighbor, offering a tantalizing possibility: a second home for humanity. Its day is just a bit longer than ours, and its seasons echo those on Earth, though stretched out and colder. When we look up at Mars, we’re not just seeing a distant world; we’re seeing a mirror for our hopes, fears, and boundless curiosity. But wanting to call Mars home is one thing — making it habitable is a whole different beast.
Source: DiscoverWildScience
Conscious Planet
Could a planet really develop a brain?
Source: LIVESCIENCE
“My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness.”
The idea that Earth may operate as a single, self-regulating, living organism has existed for decades, emerging in the 1970s as the Gaia hypothesis. In this excerpt from “Gaia Wakes: Earth’s Emerging Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation” (Columbia University Press, 2025), economic development and peacebuilding expert Topher McDougal describes how Earth might acquire a planetary brain powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in what he dubs the “Gaiacephalos hypothesis.” McDougal argues that this giant, global brain could benefit humanity by boosting the complexity of life on Earth and ultimately secure a more sustainable future.
What if our entire planet were to grow a consciousness? The human race finds itself aboard a vessel traversing the vastness of the Milky Way — the Spaceship Earth, as Henry George, Kenneth Boulding, Buckminster Fuller, and others since have so appositely described it. But those thinkers were using the phrase only to evoke the limitations placed on human societies in a relatively closed, steady-state system. They were merely implying that our economies can only grow so far before they come up against the very real resource constraints of our tiny planet floating in the vast emptiness of space.
Environmentalism
Europe is fastest-warming continent on planet
Source: ABC News
Europe has been warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s
Climate change is taking a major human, economic and environmental toll in Europe, which has now been dubbed the fastest warming continent of the world, according to a new report.
Europe has been warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s, the report, released Monday by Copernicus, the European Union’s climate change service, and the World Meteorological Organization, states.
Summer 2022 in Europe was characterized by rolling heatwaves, record-breaking temperatures and more than 1,100 heat-related deaths in a single event.
In 2022, Europe was approximately 2.3 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial revolution average — global temperatures between 1850 and 1900, which are used as a baseline for the Paris climate accord.
Resources
How can we transform the global food system to preserve our planet?
Source: Euro News
Just like climate policy requires a focus across the entire value chain for emission reductions, the food industry must do the same, Johan Rockström writes.
Despite continued resource-depleting and polluting economic growth, a growing global population, and planetary boundaries being breached, there is still a chance of returning to the safe zone for a scientifically defined, stable, and resilient planet.
But the time to make the necessary changes is running out, with this decade marking our best opportunity. We need a turn-around in the narrative of the future, now.
The global food system must be at the forefront of this transformation, as, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), it accounts for over 34% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
To accelerate change, both businesses and policy must align with science-based targets with an integrated approach that goes beyond climate.
