Futures Thinking
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Letter no. 40
Dear reader from the future, Can you remember a world where it is still bearable to go outside on a sunny day? I can only look back to how cool afternoons were when I was five, the trees shading our house from the tolerable outdoor heat. I can recall the memories in tinted blues and… Read more
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Stepping back
These days, I’ve been watching documentaries about various topics, such as geopolitics, economics, healthcare, education, energy, and the environment. Some of them were aired a decade ago or even more. And what interests me is how current events make more sense the farther you step back in time. Indeed, the signals of change indicate what… Read more
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The junk food law
Can you imagine a world where you have to pay an additional tax if you want to consume unhealthy snacks (like your go-to chips), soft drinks (because you want that fizz), and certain processed meats (that are often cheaper than the unprocessed ones). Well, you don’t have to look far into the future because it’s… Read more
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I watched the “Time Bomb Y2K”
It was the year 1999, and I don’t understand much of anything that’s been going abuzz, but what I understand as a five-year-old is that the turn of the century could mean the end of the world as we know it. It’s all over the news. And I’ve seen glimpses of the panic over the… Read more
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The transformation of an old coal power plant
These days, I keep thinking about coal power plants and what they’d become once they were decommissioned. The thought has been running around my head for some time now following the COP28 agreements about transitioning away from fossil fuels. In the Philippines, there has already been a moratorium on new coal power plants (which is… Read more
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Letter no. 38
Dear reader from the future, What kind of energy landscape do you have in your time? In my time, there are global talks about shifting away from fossil fuels following the Conference of Parties (COP) 28. COP meetings are an annual gathering of global leaders who talk about climate-related issues and their plans for the… Read more
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Letter no. 37
Dear reader from the future, You might be living in a world where hurricanes, heavy downpours, floods, blizzards, heat waves, and droughts are the norm. What kind of world would that be? But today, people in power have gathered to discuss the future humanity should be heading. A future that has mitigated and adapted to climate change.… Read more
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