One Fish, Two Fish

In this essay I will once again show how the Official Narrative of science re: the End of the World can be successfully challenged, opening up a new understanding of the objective nature of the end of the world. With this fresh understanding we can suddenly re-evaluate the world-wide cries that address the end of the world. It is an objectively real phenomenon, as real as the predicted end of the physical earth (in 4-7 billion years). But unlike the time scale of our scientifically predicted end of the world, this end of the world has already “happened” i.e. is past and, at the same time, is emerging into our present from the unknown future. And it IS imminent.

Book review, Richard Grusin, ed., Anthropocene Feminism, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2017. The Anthropocene marks who it is that feels under threat of extinction in this moment; who feels despair at the litany of stories about the end of the world and ecological apocalypse. For many of the largely absent interlocutors, whole lifeworlds and ecosystems have been unravelling around them for generations. As it appears in the contributions to this volume, feminism in the Anthropocene is an ethical concern – a question of seeing and feeling differently. What is missing in this volume is an articulation of a feminist praxis for struggling within ecological crisis, one that foregrounds the conditions of exposure to the slow violence of the Anthropocene vis-à-vis the conditions of womanhood and gender relations.

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture , 2021

Preface to Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 24:3 (Summer 2021): 5-21. In this essay, based on the spring 2021 Thought and Culture Lecture at the University of St. Thomas, I probe an increasingly secularized culture's fascination with endings, namely apocalyptic ones--despite the discordance with a secular outlook. I then turn to the various Christian apocalyptic visions of the last few centuries and examine what the Catholic teaching on the end actually is. Finally, I look briefly at Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 novel, *Lord of the World,* as a good example of a Catholic--though not infallible--apocalyptic vision. The essay also includes: a notice of the passing of editorial board member John Polkinghorne; information about the new podcast, Deep Down Things; and blurbs for the articles in the issue.

GTDF, 2020

This text weaves together Indigenous teachings that affirm that if we approach the potential, likelihood or inevitability of the collapse of our current system with relational maturity, sobriety and accountability we will be taught to heal our relations and coexist differently with each other and the Earth. This text was collaboratively written by a collective of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, artists, educators, and activists from the Global North and South. The collaborative process was coordinated by Cash Ahenakew, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing.

This paper will describe why I believe the human world is coming to a selfimposed end. In the first half of the paper it will examine multiple conflicts that have occurred since the beginning of the 21 st centuries and in the second part will examine how collectively they have led us to the point we are about to be eradicated. The purpose of this paper is not to spread fear, to radicalize individuals or to blame any specific individual, nation or institution. The purpose of this paper is simply to inform people of the potential world war three that in my opinion is on the verge of breaking out with the very real potential of being a nuclear holocaust that would have the most devastating number of casualties compared to any previous conflicts and at the worst lead to the complete eradication of the human race. That all being said I need to stress this is not to scare but to inform.

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In this short essay I have showed one possible research on meaningfulness speech about the end of the world, which, if it is not taking into account the worldviews that structure understanding of every phenomenon and notion in my world, indicates a conceptual error when talking about various scenarios of the end of the world.

As the World Burns: Where Do We Go from Here?, 2021

This is a "big picture," a synthesis of material from several critical fields, including climate change, economics, digital technology, world governance, the global economy, economic benefits of a circular economy, the dangers of increasing electrification, and further strategies of improving societal resilience and sustainability. The even bigger picture, the spiritual perspective, is also discussed. The effects of catastrophic climate change have by now become so apparent and alarming that the topic has taken global center stage. COP26, in Glasgow, unsurprisingly, did not accomplish much, however. Once again, agreements were compromises, promises for doing too little, too late. But the conference did bring pressure upon nations to act with a greater sense of urgency. As has been reported, between 2015 and today, the "tribe" of COP attendees had been transformed from one of "environment ministers, scientists and activists" to one of "business leaders, financiers and monetary officials." Climate modeling remains flawed. The growth imperative still rules the day. Growth causes global ecological damage, including climate change and resultant biodiversity losses, altogether driving us faster toward the extinction of our own and other species. Add to that, a pandemic which has, to a large degree, crippled the circulatory system of a globalized society. A transnational capitalist class is emerging, uniting to create central control at the global level. Globalization is now in the next phase of consolidation and centralization of the world economy. Through the electrification and interconnection of all parts of the global economy, through Wi-Fi and the "Internet of Things," the increasingly wealthy global elite, are working to ensure their ongoing control over the resources and distribution of global goods and services, whether they be natural, raw, technological, or financial resources. The global economy has changed since the beginning of industrialization, and is now in the next phase of consolidation by global elites. This comes as the end of a long arc of national imperial powers, which, individually, have been imperiled by growing global unrest and challenges to their authority, and more severe shortages of natural resources, not to mention the global recession brought about by the pandemic. In 2020 the ultra-rich got richer. Now they're bracing for the backlash. They are coming together as a global organization as a means of preserving themselves, largely ignoring how they are destroying our biosphere. The belief that environmental costs of digital technology can be offset by the gains they could render is still to be confirmed. The rush to electrify the world and establish a technological digital economy has a considerable downside, not to mention the embedded opportunities for authoritarianism. This author wrote in "How Has it Come to This: Climate Change and the Future of Planet Earth", about a few of the strategies for ensuring optimal resilience and survivability. They include re-localization, cooperative communities, and regenerative agriculture. Additional strategies are presented here. There is an overarching even bigger picture too...the spiritual dimension. Broadly speaking, this means not only how one responds to apparent threats, but also how one may fortify one's equanimity. We can best see our way forward if we are in a state of inner equanimity, not reacting out of fear. Further, we may remember that this is a time of profound learning. If we hold the view that what are we here for is to learn and grow in our understanding, wisdom, and skillfulness, then we may embrace the present and the many opportunities it offers for our learning.

CGSS, 2022

CGSS PUBLICATION Title: What could happen in the world tomorrow! End Times: Messiah, Jesus & the Mahdi; and Armilus, Antichrist & the Dajjal (Panoramic Sequel) Author: Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi Publisher: CGSS (Center for Global and Strategic Studies, Islamabad) Publication date: January 2022 (Islamabad) E-book ISBN: 978 - 969 - 9837 - 14 - 2 NOT FOR COMMERCIAL SALE (An in-house publication, for research and reflection) Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi All rights reserved in the name of the author. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, mechanical, copying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author