The rules of catastrophe

The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is increasing exponentially by the hour. Not a global but a local conflict. Or rather, glocal, a global conflict played out locally. Between the Philippines and China, for example, as the latest episodes indicate. It may end rapidly or else unfold into something else.
In the meantime, a body of analysis stating everything and the opposite of everything is building around this scenario. Of these, one worthy of mention is the report by Bonnie S. Glaser, from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
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Full Text of Memorandum (with permission from the Council on Foreign Relations).
Robert D. Kaplan’s article, America's Pacific Logic, is also interesting.
In fact, more than providing an understanding of what is really going on, these pieces are useful for getting an idea of how our world is governed by new laws of complexity, which can increasingly be represented as a chaotic system. And from this perspective it’s wise to remember that the chaos theory can also be defined as the catastrophe theory.
In the meantime, we wait for the butterfly to flap its wings and trigger a ripple across the China Sea that could turn into a global tsunami.
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Poop

Funny, interesting or just plain unpleasant? Take a look at these drawings and statistics. They were created for the World Toilet Organization, which aims to improve water quality for the planet’s poorest people. Those who, literally, live in poop.
These are the projects that make real, concrete and actual sense. Much more than all that rambling about globalisation or loss of cultural identity that we hear repeated too often. For many, cultural identity also means a lack of sanitation, disease and death.
Lack of Sanitation
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