Imagine our US leadership saying "The wellbeing of our people is at the center of our agenda."
#Sustainability #WhatNext
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/bhutan-pm-tshering-tobgay-first-carbon-negative-nation-climate-wellbeing

"In the early days, Sesame street was tremendously successful!" - DAVID KAMP, Is this the End of Sesame Street?, What Next #WhatNext #SesameStreetDay #DavidKamp

"It's a difficult thing, isn't it?" - IMOGEN WEST-KNIGHTS, Where is Kate Middleton?, What Next #WhatNext #ImogenWestknights

"And he convinced a young Zohran Mamdani to help him do it." - MARY HARRIS, Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In, What Next #WhatNext #ZohranMamdani #MaryHarris

"They were extraordinarily expensive!" - JASON KOEBLER, Ticketmaster's Swift Meltdown, What Next #WhatNext #JasonKoebler

0830-0930 Wednesday 8th October

#WhatNext Cymru are joined this morning by Ben Evans, Arts Development Manager at Arts & Business Cymru who will talk about the support they can offer the #arts in Wales.

Zoom facilities provided by the National Eisteddfod:
https://eisteddfod.zoom.us/j/83413535015

#WNCymru is a chapter or What Next Culture

#WNCulture

"The Trump administration, meanwhile, rejects the science showing that climate change is worsening natural disasters and has ceased Pentagon efforts to plan for such impacts or reduce its own carbon footprint."
#ClimateChange #Politics
#WhatNext
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/natural-disasters-are-a-rising-burden-for-the-national-guard/

"Community, collaborative problem-solving, ritual and meaning are vital ingredients for a satisfying life and will remain so, whatever technology we invent or cultural trends bubble up. "
#Humanity #Sustainability #WhatNext
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/21/how-modern-life-makes-us-sick-and-what-to-do-about-it

"I'm not a lawyer!" - LIZ HOFFMAN, Fed Up!, What Next #WhatNext #LizHoffman

Does anyone else feel this way?
#WhatNext

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/09/07

The ultimate in manliness (gift link): where all this Republican misogyny is heading
#WhatNext #HumanRights #Misogyny #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/asia/afghanistan-earthquake-rescue-efforts-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jU8.N22V.CtkdDEiAdRum&smid=url-share

Burning issues!
#FirstAmendment #WhatNext

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/26/csotd-same-old-burning-issue/

"Tell me how you feel about Blake Lively!" - MARY HARRIS, Blake Lively Vs. Hollywood, What Next #WhatNext #BlakeLively #HappyBirthdayBlakeLively #MaryHarris

"Alright, I'm gonna assume you know about Pickleball by now!" - MARY HARRIS, Pickleball vs. Everybody, What Next #WhatNext #NationalPickleballDay #MaryHarris

Rule #1: pit the public against each other: racism, sexism, ageism, religionism...
#WhatNext #Oligarchy #Capitalism
"It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever the faintest crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/#water-flowing-uphill

"Farmworkers can pull long hours, even if they're young." - MARY HARRIS, How Young Is Too Young to Work?, What Next #WhatNext #FarmworkerAppreciationDay #MaryHarris

"But going forward, underneath my positive messages will be an unstated truth: every one of the beautiful birds I love is at risk right now, at the hands of billionaires and politicians who are actively or passively destroying the last vestiges of environmental protections, freedom, equality, and democracy in this once great nation."
#ClimateChange #Resilience #WhatNext
https://lauraerickson.substack.com/p/beyond-florida-everything-everywhere

I asked earlier if any prior civilizations collapsed as a whole due to collective insanity, as we seem to be. Luke Kemp has another take: “History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says.
"His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says. This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.”"

#WhatNext #Humanity

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse