In the largest survey ever taken on climate change, 86% of people across 77 countries wanted their nations to set rivalry aside and cooperate.

On the dangers that could end this century, most of humanity already agrees. What we lack is any way of seeing that we share it. And a wish each person believes is theirs alone changes nothing.

A new essay on common knowledge, and why making agreement visible is the first step nothing else can start without.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/we-already-agree-we-just-cant-see

New long-form essay. When Power Stops Needing Us.

Modern democracy, welfare, and labor rights were the price elites paid for the cooperation they needed from ordinary people. Power needed workers, soldiers, voters, taxpayers.

If AI weakens that need, the bargain weakens with it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/when-power-stops-needing-us

Most of the alarm about AI and democracy is aimed at the wrong target. The deepfake before the vote is the surface. The cost of persuasion collapsing toward zero is the deeper shift, and the systems built to channel it favor whoever already has scale.

A long read on what AI does to the conditions self-government needs, and what has historically worked to defend them.

https://10billion.substack.com/p/the-last-believable-election

The future will not judge us mainly by what we said we valued. It will judge us by what we made easy, profitable, prestigious, and normal. That is what institutions are. The moral memory of repeated choices.

A long essay on what 2126 will find unforgivable, and six things we still have time to do. On climate, AI, pandemics, poverty, rivalry, and animal welfare. Written to be read across borders and political traditions.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/what-the-future-will-find-unforgivable?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

By early 2026, around half of US jobs had at least a quarter of their tasks done with help from AI (Anthropic Economic Index). Klarna replaced 700 customer service agents with AI in 2024, then began rehiring after customer satisfaction dropped.

A new piece on 10Billion asks whether upskilling has become exhaustion dressed up as ambition, and what a real menu of structural responses would look like.

https://10billion.substack.com/p/the-finish-line-keeps-moving

#FutureOfWork #AI #Automation #AIPolicy

Almost every avoidable harm in the world runs on a kind of bookkeeping: full weight to our own pain, fractions to everyone else's. The fractions shrink with distance, language, resemblance, category.

A new essay on the moral fact a child knows and the world keeps forgetting.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/their-pain-is-not-less-real-than?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Philosophy #Ethics #Essay

The world is not short on ideas. It is short on maintenance.

We have built a world that can fail in systems. Not because people became worse. Because we became more capable. We added power then treated upkeep as optional.

2026 is a year where several guardrails come due. It is a year we can still steer. After that we are passengers.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/the-quiet-deadline?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#SystemsThinking #Prevention #Resilience #Climate #AI #Future

Cooperation is like mending a net. Weak knots ignore good intentions.

New essay from 10Billion.org on cooperation as practical infrastructure, and why it should be trained as a craft with tools that hold under stress.

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/how-the-world-holds?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Cooperation #Resilience

Join us at the Charter for Compassion Global Youth Conference.

Opening panel: From Crisis to Compassion

Tue Oct 28, 9:30–10:20 AM ET (6:30 AM PT, 1:30 PM GMT, 2:30 PM SAST, 7 PM IST

Register: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/cfc-global-youth-conference-2025/registration

#CFCYouthConf2025 #Peacebuilding #CompassionInAction #YouthLeadership