On the Horizon: Volume 21 Issue 3
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EducationTable Of Contents - Special Issue: Overshoot and collapse: a wake up call
Death by a thousand cuts
Tom P. AbelesThe purpose of this foresight editorial is to explore the changing nature of the traditional post‐secondary institution under increased pressure at the intersection of…
Defending the future: introductory overview of a special issue of On the Horizon on responses to The Biggest Wake‐up Call in History
Richard A. SlaughterThe purpose of this paper is to give an introductory overview of the special issue of On the Horizon (OTH) on responses to the author's book, The Biggest Wake‐up Call in…
Waking up in the twenty‐first century
Chris RiedyThe purpose of this paper is to explore metaphors of human awakening in four recent futures works and propose a research agenda on the nature and future trajectories of awakening.
Shifting values: hope and concern for “waking up”
Andy HinesThe purpose of this paper is to take up the challenge of Slaughter's Biggest Wake‐up Call in History to look for solution in the interior aspects of the Integral…
Migration and the false promise of growth
Matti HeinonenThe purpose of this paper is to analyse interaction between the economic growth and population explosion on migration and impending global crises, resulting from a…
Communicating overshoot and collapse: based on a review of Richard A. Slaughter's The Biggest Wake‐up Call in History
James W. BreauxThe purpose of this paper is to look at the communications strategy of the wake up call suggested by Slaughter and to explore alternatives and other perspectives on its…
Towards an integral futures vision
Terry CollinsThere are many challenges to be addressed in today's world. Futurists have a process, methods and skills to submit to a positive advancement of these challenges, which is…
Energy, complexity and interior development in civilisational renewal
Joshua FloydSlaughter has proposed futures in which interior human development matches that of technological development as the best prospect for avoiding catastrophic collapse…
Framing and reframing the emerging “planetary crisis”: a plea to avoid, and for increasing critique of, neoenvironmental determinism
Stephen McGrailThe purpose of this paper is to take up and contribute to understanding an important emerging theme in recent literature on global environmental change and…
Structural criminality within the “collective shadow”: disaster capitalism and the globalization of ruling power
Dennis R. MorganThe purpose of this paper is to expand upon one theme in Richard Slaughter's The Biggest Wake Up Call in History (BWCH) – that of the “collective shadow.”
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- Dr Andy Hines