Thirsty Planet, Flooded Streets: The Battle for Water Security in an Urbanizing World
As climate extremes intensify, global water security and climate-resilient cities are becoming the fault lines of our century.
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Invisible Work, Invisible Safety Nets: The Battle Over the Informal Economy and Social Protection
The informal economy and social protection are at the center of a global struggle over dignity, security, and development.
Climate Change and Global Inequality: How the Global South Is Paying the Highest Price
Climate change is deepening global inequality. This article explores how a high-emitting global elite drives warming while vulnerable communities in the Global South pay the highest price—and what real climate justice would require.
Beyond “I Think, Therefore I Am”: How Rationalism Still Shapes Our Lives — and Misleads Us
Rationalism isn’t just a topic for dusty philosophy books — it still shapes the way we bank, vote, manage, and even burn out at work. This article explores the difference between rationalism and Cartesianism, showing how Descartes’ dream of pure, disembodied reason lives on in technocracy, metrics-obsessed workplaces, and “evidence-based” politics that often forget real bodies and lives. Drawing on classic philosophers, feminist and postcolonial critiques, and recent case studies from public health, economics, and management, it argues for a new, non-Cartesian rationalism: one that keeps reason at the center, but stays rooted in experience, justice, culture, and the messy reality of being human.