BellingenNSW16h ago

The new uncomfortable normality
No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

"For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/surging-anxiety-australia-national-security-patriotism-ntwnfb

Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
https://nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-worries-australian-attitudes-national-security-risk-and-resilience

#PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

Anxiety about national security is surging among ordinary Australians. And it starts at their front door

Patriotism can be inclusive and respectful, it need not exclude and demean. Trust can vanquish extremism

The Guardian
Wen1d ago

It never rains but it pours.

Supply chains today are so highly integrated that unplanned disruptions can be devastating and difficult to bypass. In this case, medicines.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/28/uk-weeks-away-medicine-shortages-iran-war-impacts-experts-warn

#War #Medicine #Israel #USA #Iran #SupplyChain #Instability

UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts say

Concern that supply chain disruption could hit health essentials – and prices – from painkillers to cancer treatment

The Guardian
CBC Thunder Bay2d ago
Ontario's 2026 budget sees deficit hit $13.8B amid looming global instability
The spectre of worldwide instability looms large in Ontario's 2026 budget, which includes a small business income tax cut alongside a temporary reprieve on HST for buyers of new homes — but also pushes back a balanced budget for yet another year with a higher-than projected deficit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-budget-2026-9.7143032?cmp=rss
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦3d ago
“The greatest risk #Denmark faces may not be #Trump or the #Kremlin, but a return to 1970s-style #instability, characterized by frequent #elections – roughly every two years – and weak #economic performance.”

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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.03d ago

Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/flowers-heated-2c-meadow-climate-crisis-experiment-rocky-mountains-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#biodiversity #instability #Habitat #EcosystemChanges #Climate

Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

The Guardian
Yle News5d ago

12-month Euribor sees biggest daily jump since 2008

Middle East instability is fuelling volatility in global interest rate markets.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20217054

#MiddleEast #instability #volatility #globalmarkets #interestrates

12-month Euribor sees biggest daily jump since 2008

Middle East instability is fuelling volatility in global interest rate markets.

News
Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈5d ago
#MissKittyPolitics This view of brutally whimsical #instability is the perfect foil from which to plead the case of #housing #endowments as a great #societal #stabilizer. Stability is policy. Homeless deaths, 126 A DAY IN AMERICA, are murder by policy. End #homeless. Begin #civilization.

Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks R...
Stocks Bounce as Trump Backs Off Iran Infrastructure Threat

Oil prices tumbled and yields on government bonds pulled back from highs. But the response faded as the day went on.

The New York Times
BellingenNSW6d ago

State of the Global Climate 2025

The World Meteorological Organization "State of Climate report confirms

2015-2025 hottest 11 years on record

Earth’s energy imbalance is highest in sixty five-year record.

The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades.

Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions."
>>
https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate/state-of-global-climate-2025
#FossilFuels #climate #GHG #ExtremeWeather #Extremes #heatwaves #ocean #MassMortalities #cryosphere #atmosphere #WMO #ClimateDisruption #bushfires #floods #droughts #heatwaves #instability #war #pollution

State of the Global Climate 2025

WMO’s State of the Global Climate report 2025 confirms that 2015-2025 are the hottest 11-years on record, and that 2025 was the second or third hottest year on record, at about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average. Extreme events around the world, including intense heat, heavy rainfall and tropical cyclones, caused disruption and devastation and highlighted the vulnerability of our inter-connected economies and societies.The ocean continues to warm and absorb carbon dioxide. It has been absorbing the equivalent of about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades. Annual sea ice extent in the Arctic was at or near a record low, Antarctic sea ice extent was the third lowest on record, and glacier melt continued unabated, according to the report.For the first time, the report includes the Earth’s energy imbalance as one of the key climate indicators.

World Meteorological Organization
Show threadGerd_BrodowskiMar 20

#israel #lebanon #militaryinvasion #childhood #ptsd #civilianwarvictims #trauma #instability #unpredictability #children #psychiatricdisorders #mentalhealth #violence #assaults #killings #displacement

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…a parent, all of these carry a very high risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Gerd_BrodowskiMar 20

#israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #childhood / #ptsd / #civilianwarvictims

»“Cumulative #trauma, cumulative adverse experiences and ongoing #instability and #unpredictability certainly put these #children at higher risk... of developing #psychiatricdisorders and negative #mentalhealth outcomes,” child and adolescent psychiatrist Evelyne Baroud told AFP.
“Witnessing #violence, physical #assaults, #killings, forced #displacement, losing one’s home, loss of…

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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/war-has-aged-us-lebanons-kids-arent-all-right

‘War has aged us’: Lebanon’s kids aren’t all right

For many of them, their formative years have been jeopardised by repeated conflicts and crises. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times