# Authors in Town

> When the writers on the metacrisis, the polycrisis, existential risk and systems come through New York City, read every morning from their own sites and from New York venue calendars. Made by Benjamin Von Wong of the Dear Crisis community (https://dearcrisis.com).

## Data

- [feeds/nyc.xml](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/feeds/nyc.xml): RSS, named authors in New York City
- [feeds/all.xml](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/feeds/all.xml): RSS, every date everywhere
- [authors-nyc.ics](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/authors-nyc.ics): the New York dates as a calendar
- [authors-all.ics](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/authors-all.ics): every date as a calendar
- [events.json](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/data/events.json): every date with its source
- [authors.json](https://authors.dearcrisis.com/data/authors.json): the authors followed

## New York dates (2)

- Fri, Nov 6, 2026: Michael E. Mann, Awards Night for the Raw Science Film Festival (Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York City, NY) (Bruno Walter Auditorium)
- Sat, Nov 7, 2026, 5:00 PM: Douglas Rushkoff, Coops against Collapse - Metacrisis Salon #16 (245 Varet St, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA)

## Authors (225)

- [Adam Tooze](https://adamtooze.com): Columbia historian who brought the word polycrisis into wide use. Author of Crashed and Shutdown, and of the Chartbook newsletter.
- [adrienne maree brown](https://adriennemareebrown.net): Author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism.
- [Alex Hanna](https://alex-hanna.com/): Sociologist, research director at the Distributed AI Research Institute, co-author of The AI Con.
- [Alnoor Ladha](https://darajapress.com/authors/alnoor-ladha/): Co-wrote Post Capitalist Philanthropy, which argues that redistributing money is not enough and that giving must change how people perceive and relate to a living world.
- [Amanda Ripley](https://www.amandaripley.com): Journalist and author of High Conflict.
- [Amitav Ghosh](https://amitavghosh.com): Author of The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse and Wild Fictions.
- [Amory Lovins](https://rmi.org/bios/amory-lovins/): Co-wrote Natural Capitalism, an environmental economics book on making far more productive use of natural resources in business.
- [Anand Giridharadas](https://anand.ly): Author of Winners Take All and The Persuaders.
- [Andreas Malm](https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/andreas-malm): Author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and Fossil Capital.
- [Andrew Boyd](https://andrewboyd.com/): Wrote I Want a Better Catastrophe, a guide to living with climate grief as warming passes the 2C limit, using hope and gallows humor.
- [Anna Lappé](https://smallplanet.org/anna-lappe): Writes on food, farming and sustainability; Diet for a Hot Planet traces the climate crisis through the food system.
- [Anne Therese Gennari](https://www.annetheresegennari.com): Wrote The Climate Optimist Handbook, which treats climate optimism as a practice combining awareness, resilience, action and hope.
- [Annie Duke](https://www.annieduke.com/): Wrote Quit, which argues that knowing when to walk away is integral to success, and How to Decide, a set of tools for making better choices.
- [Annie Jacobsen](https://anniejacobsen.com): Investigative journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario.
- [Arturo Escobar](https://www.amacad.org/person/arturo-escobar): Wrote Designs for the Pluriverse, which argues design should turn from capitalist modernization to place-based autonomous practice drawn from Latin American struggles.
- [Asher Miller](https://www.postcarbon.org/our-people/asher-miller/): Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute since 2008, which works on the transition away from fossil fuels and growth dependence.
- [Ashish Kothari](https://ashishkothari.in/): Co-editor of Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary.
- [Astra Taylor](https://astrataylor.com): Author of The Age of Insecurity and co-author of End Times Fascism with Naomi Klein.
- [Audrey Tang](https://audreyt.org): Taiwan's first digital minister and co-author of Plurality.
- [Ayana Elizabeth Johnson](https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com): Marine biologist and author of What If We Get It Right? Co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab.
- [Aza Raskin](https://www.earthspecies.org/): Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and of the Earth Species Project.
- [Barrett Holmes Pitner](https://www.barrettholmespitner.com/): Wrote The Crime Without a Name, which traces the historical origins of ethnocide in the United States and its effects on Black Americans.
- [Bayo Akomolafe](https://www.bayoakomolafe.net): Author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. Founder of The Emergence Network.
- [Becky Chambers](https://www.otherscribbles.com): Wrote A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a novella about a tea monk and a robot asking what people need after an industrial age.
- [Bill McKibben](https://billmckibben.com): Author of The End of Nature and Falter. Founder of 350.org and Third Act.
- [Bill Plotkin](https://www.animas.org/guides/36/bill-plotkin): Wrote Nature and the Human Soul, which maps human development as eight life stages rooted in nature and soul.
- [Brian Klaas](https://brianklaas.com): Political scientist and author of Fluke and Corruptible.
- [Brian Swimme](http://www.ciis.edu/faculty-and-staff-directory/brian-thomas-swimme): Co-wrote The Universe Story, which tells cosmic and Earth history as a single narrative meant to reorient human purpose.
- [Carissa Véliz](https://www.carissaveliz.com): Oxford philosopher and author of Privacy Is Power and Prophecy.
- [Carolyn Baker](https://www.carolynbaker.net): Wrote Apocalypse Anytime, a workbook holding that the polycrisis cannot be solved, only responded to, with emotional and spiritual tools.
- [Chad Frischmann](https://www.chadfrischmann.com): Co-wrote Drawdown and built its solutions framework, which ranks existing climate solutions by their potential to reduce greenhouse gases.
- [Charles Eisenstein](https://charleseisenstein.org): Author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible and Climate: A New Story.
- [Chauncey Bell](https://www.chaunceybell.com/): Wrote Mobilize! Dancing in the World, a book for people responsible for the future of enterprises, drawing on decades of consulting on how organizations work.
- [Chris Benner](https://transform.ucsc.edu/partnerships/projects/solidarity-economics): Co-wrote Solidarity Economics, which offers a framework for equity-driven economic reform built on mutuality and social movements.
- [Chris Johnstone](https://chrisjohnstone.info/): Co-wrote Active Hope, which offers tools for facing the mess the world is in and finding a role in the transition to a society that supports life.
- [Chris Smaje](https://chrissmaje.com): Wrote A Small Farm Future, which argues for a society built on local economies, self-provisioning and agricultural diversity.
- [Codie Sanchez](https://codiesanchez.com/): Wrote Main Street Millionaire, which argues for building wealth by buying existing small businesses instead of starting new ones.
- [Cory Doctorow](https://craphound.com): Author of Enshittification and The Internet Con. Keeps a running list of appearances on Pluralistic.
- [Dahr Jamail](https://www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/74-dahr-jamail): Co-edited We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices from Turtle Island at the center of talk about the environmental crisis.
- [Dan Davies](https://backofmind.substack.com): Author of The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money, on how organizations stop being answerable.
- [Daniel Christian Wahl](https://www.danielchristianwahl.com/): Author of Designing Regenerative Cultures.
- [Daniel Hoyer](https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/daniel-hoyer): Co-wrote Navigating Polycrisis, which uses a database of past crises to study how societies respond to environmental shocks.
- [Daniel M. Knight](https://st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/dmk3): Anthropologist and author of Against Polycrisis, a critique of the framework.
- [Daniel Pinchbeck](https://pinchbeck.net): Wrote Breaking Open the Head, an account of psychedelic plant shamanism arguing for its role in spiritual recognition.
- [Daniel Schmachtenberger](https://civilizationemerging.com): Founding member of The Consilience Project. Writes and speaks on the metacrisis and the third attractor.
- [Daron Acemoglu](https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu): MIT economist, co-author of Power and Progress and Why Nations Fail.
- [David Abram](https://www.davidabram.org/): Wrote The Spell of the Sensuous, which argues that human thought and language grow from sensory contact with the natural world and that this bond can be recovered.
- [David Bollier](https://www.bollier.org): Co-wrote Free, Fair, and Alive, which argues self-organized commoning offers an alternative to both capitalism and socialism.
- [David Korten](https://davidkorten.org/): Wrote When Corporations Rule the World, on corporate power and globalization, and The Great Turning, on moving from empire to Earth community.
- [David Sloan Wilson](https://www.davidsloanwilson.world): Evolutionary biologist and author of Darwin's Cathedral and This View of Life.
- [David Wallace-Wells](https://davidwallacewells.com): Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.
- David Wengrow: Co-wrote The Dawn of Everything, which argues there was no single original form of human society and that large societies often ran without ruling elites.
- [Deepak Bhargava](https://www.practicalradicals.com): Co-author of Practical Radicals with Stephanie Luce.
- Dennis Meadows: Co-wrote The Limits to Growth, which used the World3 computer model to show that unchanged growth would reach the planet's limits within a century.
- [Dmitry Orlov](https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/): Wrote The Five Stages of Collapse, which splits collapse into financial, commercial, political, social and cultural stages, each losing a level of trust.
- [Donna Haraway](https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/haraway): Wrote Staying with the Trouble, which replaces the Anthropocene with the Chthulucene and argues for making-with other species on a damaged earth.
- [Donnie Maclurcan](https://postgrowth.org/who-we-are/team/): Director of Strategy at the Post Growth Institute, which he founded. Argues in talks that post-growth futures must be post-capitalist.
- [Dougald Hine](https://dougald.nu): Author of At Work in the Ruins, on what climate science cannot answer.
- [Douglas Rushkoff](https://rushkoff.com): Author of Team Human and Survival of the Richest, on technology and the billionaire escape plan.
- Duane Elgin: Wrote Choosing Earth, which argues humanity is in a planetary transition and must choose consciously how to live on a damaged Earth.
- [E. Glen Weyl](https://glenweyl.com): Economist and co-author of Plurality with Audrey Tang, and of Radical Markets.
- [Ed Conway](https://www.edmundconway.com/): Sky News economics editor and author of Material World.
- [Eden Medina](https://edenmedina.mit.edu/): Author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries, on Chile's Project Cybersyn.
- [Edward E. Baptist](https://as.cornell.edu/people/edward-e-baptist): Wrote The Half Has Never Been Told, which argues that the expansion of slavery drove the growth of the American economy and of capitalism.
- [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://www.yudkowsky.net/): Co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
- [Elizabeth Kolbert](https://www.elizabethkolbert.com): New Yorker staff writer and author of The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky.
- [Eman Abdelhadi](https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/directory/Eman-Abdelhadi): Co-wrote Everything for Everyone, speculative oral histories of a New York revolution imagining a social order built after capitalism collapses.
- [Émile P. Torres](https://www.xriskology.com): Philosopher and historian of existential risk, author of Human Extinction.
- [Emily M. Bender](https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender): Linguist and co-author of The AI Con with Alex Hanna.
- [Eric Ries](https://www.incorruptible.co/): Wrote Incorruptible, on why good companies go bad and how great companies stay great.
- [Evan Eisenberg](https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/45600/the-ecology-of-eden-by-evan-eisenberg): Wrote The Ecology of Eden, which uses the myth of paradise to ask what place humans have had in nature and what place they should take.
- [Fritjof Capra](https://www.fritjofcapra.net): Physicist and author of The Tao of Physics and The Systems View of Life.
- [Gary Marcus](https://garymarcus.substack.com/): Cognitive scientist and author of Taming Silicon Valley and Rebooting AI.
- [Gary Paul Nabhan](https://uapress.arizona.edu/author/gary-paul-nabhan): Wrote Where Our Food Comes From, retracing Vavilov's seed-collecting journeys to argue that crop diversity protects the food supply.
- [Geoffrey West](https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-west): Santa Fe Institute physicist and author of Scale.
- [George Lakoff](https://georgelakoff.com): Cognitive linguist and author of Don't Think of an Elephant.
- [George Monbiot](https://www.monbiot.com): Guardian columnist and author of Regenesis and The Invisible Doctrine.
- [Glen Sean Coulthard](https://politics.ubc.ca/profile/glen-coulthard/): Wrote Red Skin, White Masks, which rejects the colonial politics of recognition as a route to Indigenous self-determination.
- [Guy D. Middleton](https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/persons/guy-d-middleton/): Wrote Understanding Collapse, a survey of ancient cases such as Rome, the Maya and Easter Island that questions modern myths about how societies fall.
- [Hahrie Han](https://www.p3researchlab.org/hahrie_han): Johns Hopkins political scientist and author of How Organizations Develop Activists.
- [Hannah Ritchie](https://hannahritchie.com): Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World.
- [Hanzi Freinacht](https://metamoderna.org): Pen name behind The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology, on metamodern politics.
- [Helena Norberg-Hodge](https://www.localfutures.org/): Wrote Ancient Futures, which draws on Ladakh since 1975 to show how globalized development changes a local culture, and argues for localization.
- [Hugh Eakin](https://www.americanacademy.de/person/hugh-eakin/): Wrote Picasso's War, an account of how a 1939 Museum of Modern Art show and two men's obsession with Picasso brought modern art to America.
- [Hunter Lovins](https://natcapsolutions.org/l-hunter-lovins/): Co-wrote Natural Capitalism, an environmental economics book on making far more productive use of natural resources in business.
- [Iain McGilchrist](https://channelmcgilchrist.com): Psychiatrist and author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things, on what the brain's two hemispheres mean for how a civilization attends to the world.
- [Jacob Harold](https://www.jacobharold.com): Wrote The Toolbox, which sets out nine strategies used by social movements and large businesses to change systems.
- [James Bridle](https://jamesbridle.com/): Wrote Ways of Being, a book about AI, non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing and more-than-human relations.
- [James Gustave Speth](https://democracycollaborative.org/gus-speth): Co-edited The New Systems Reader, a collection of alternatives to the current political economy aimed at deep system change.
- [Jamie Wheal](https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/): Wrote Recapture the Rapture, which rethinks god, sex and death for a world it says has lost its mind. Founded the Flow Genome Project.
- [Janine Benyus](https://biomimicry.net): Author of Biomimicry and co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute.
- [Jared Diamond](https://geog.ucla.edu/person/jared-diamond/): Author of Collapse, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Upheaval.
- [Jason Hickel](https://www.jasonhickel.org): Economic anthropologist and author of Less Is More and The Divide.
- [Jeff Sebo](https://jeffsebo.net): NYU philosopher and author of The Moral Circle, on who and what counts as morality's scope widens.
- [Jeffrey A. Winters](https://polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/): Wrote The Blind Spot, which argues that democracy's failure to address economic inequality is intentional, because oligarchs hold more power than voters.
- [Jeffrey Sachs](https://www.jeffsachs.org): Columbia economist, director of the Center for Sustainable Development, author of The Age of Sustainable Development.
- [Jem Bendell](https://jembendell.com): Author of Breaking Together and originator of the Deep Adaptation paper.
- [Jeremy Johnson](https://www.jeremydjohnson.com): Wrote Seeing Through the World, an introduction to Jean Gebser's philosophy of integral consciousness.
- [Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com): Author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning. Founder of the Deep Transformation Network.
- [Jessica Gordon Nembhard](https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/jessica-gordon-nembhard): Political economist and author of Collective Courage, a history of Black cooperatives.
- [Johan Rockström](https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2008-01-16-rockstrom.html): Earth scientist behind the planetary boundaries framework, co-author of Breaking Boundaries.
- [Johann Hari](https://johannhari.com/): Wrote Stolen Focus, which argues that attention is collapsing worldwide for twelve deep causes and that people and societies can win focus back.
- [john a. powell](https://belonging.berkeley.edu/john-powell): Co-wrote Belonging without Othering, which argues that no group is inherently an other and that societies can be built on belonging across difference.
- [John Elkington](https://johnelkington.com/): Wrote Green Swans, which explores new forms of capitalism for the 21st century and a move toward regeneration.
- John Fullerton: Wrote Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis, which sets out the economic and finance ideas he developed at Capital Institute.
- [John Michael Greer](https://www.ecosophia.net): Wrote The Ecotechnic Future, which argues industrial society will decline in stages toward lower-energy societies, not collapse or progress.
- [John Vervaeke](https://johnvervaeke.com/): Cognitive scientist behind the lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
- [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.jonathanhaidt.com/): Wrote The Anxious Generation, which argues that the shift from play-based to phone-based childhood has driven an epidemic of teen mental illness.
- [Jonathan Rowson](https://systems-souls-society.com/): Philosopher and chess grandmaster, co-founder of Perspectiva. Wrote the essay Tasting the Pickle on the metacrisis, and The Moves That Matter.
- [Jorgen Randers](http://www.2052.info/): Co-wrote The Limits to Growth, which modeled growth against finite resources, and later 2052, a global forecast for the next forty years.
- [Joseph Henrich](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178431/the-secret-of-our-success): Wrote The Secret of Our Success, which argues that humans thrive through cultural learning shared across generations, and that culture and genes shaped each other.
- [Joseph Tainter](https://www.usu.edu/today/story/fragile-amp-impermanent-usu-expert-tapped-for-his-take-on-big-picture-social-disruption): Anthropologist and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies.
- [Jude Currivan](https://judecurrivan.com/): Wrote The Cosmic Hologram, which proposes that information is the basic ingredient of reality and that the universe is holographic and unified.
- [Karen Hao](https://karendhao.com): Journalist and author of Empire of AI.
- [Kate Crawford](https://katecrawford.net): Author of Atlas of AI, on AI's material and political costs.
- [Kate Marvel](https://www.marvelclimate.com/): Climate scientist and author of Human Nature.
- [Kate Raworth](https://www.kateraworth.com): Author of Doughnut Economics and co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
- [Katharine Hayhoe](https://www.katharinehayhoe.com): Climate scientist and author of Saving Us.
- [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info): Novelist and author of The Ministry for the Future.
- [Kohei Saito](https://koheisaito.com): Author of Slow Down and Marx in the Anthropocene, on degrowth.
- [Kyle Whyte](https://www.colorado.edu/project/environmental-futures/node/43): Writes on Indigenous peoples and climate policy, examining moral and political issues in climate justice, food sovereignty and the Anthropocene.
- [Laurie Laybourn](https://laurielaybourn.com/speaking/): Researcher on climate tipping points and derailment risk; co-wrote Planet on Fire on the environmental emergency and the economic systems driving it.
- [Leanne Betasamosake Simpson](https://www.leannesimpson.ca): Wrote As We Have Always Done, which argues Indigenous freedom comes through radical resistance grounded in Nishnaabeg thought and land.
- [Lene Rachel Andersen](https://www.nordicbildung.org): Author of Metamodernity and The Nordic Secret. Founder of the Nordic Bildung think tank.
- [Lewis Hyde](https://www.lewishyde.com): Author of The Gift, on creativity and the commons.
- [Linda Tuhiwai Smith](https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/en/about/about-the-waitangi-tribunal/tribunal/professor-linda-tuhiwai-smith-cnzm): Wrote Decolonizing Methodologies, which critiques Western research as a tool of imperialism and sets out Indigenous approaches to research.
- [Liv Boeree](https://www.livboeree.com/): Host of the Win-Win podcast, on the game theory behind runaway competition.
- [Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee](https://goldensufi.org): Edited Spiritual Ecology, which argues the ecological crisis is a spiritual one that calls for a changed relationship with the Earth.
- [Luke Kemp](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2257058/luke-kemp/): Author of Goliath's Curse, a history of how societies collapse, and researcher in global catastrophic risk.
- [Lynn Murphy](https://darajapress.com/authors/lynn-murphy-2/): Co-wrote Post Capitalist Philanthropy, which argues that redistributing money is not enough and that giving must change how people perceive and relate to a living world.
- [M.E. O'Brien](https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/everything-for-everyone): Co-wrote Everything for Everyone, speculative oral histories of a New York revolution imagining a social order built after capitalism collapses.
- [Manuel Pastor](https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/manuel-pastor/): Co-wrote Solidarity Economics, which offers a framework for equity-driven economic reform built on mutuality and social movements.
- [Margaret Wheatley](https://margaretwheatley.com/): Wrote Who Do We Choose to Be?, which asks people to see current reality clearly, claim leadership and restore sanity, since older work may no longer fit.
- [Mariana Mazzucato](https://marianamazzucato.com): Economist and author of Mission Economy and The Value of Everything.
- [Marjorie Kelly](https://www.marjoriekelly.org): Author of Wealth Supremacy and Owning Our Future.
- [Mark Swilling](https://www0.sun.ac.za/cst/team-member/mark-swilling/): Wrote The Age of Sustainability, which argues that the renewable energy transition is key to a just transition on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.
- [Martin Rees](https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/martin.rees): Astronomer Royal, author of Our Final Hour and If Science Is to Save Us. Co-founder of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
- [Matt Haig](https://www.matthaig.com/): Novelist who wrote The Life Impossible and The Midnight Library, fiction about grief, regret and finding reasons to go on living.
- [Matthias Schmelzer](https://www.uni-flensburg.de/nec/ueber-uns/personen/mitarbeiterinnen/matthias-schmelzer): Co-wrote The Future Is Degrowth, which sets out a case and strategies for an economy beyond growth and capitalism.
- [Max Tegmark](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/): MIT physicist, author of Life 3.0, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute.
- [Melanie Mitchell](https://melaniemitchell.me): Santa Fe Institute professor and author of Complexity: A Guided Tour.
- [Merlin Sheldrake](https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/): Wrote Entangled Life, which shows how fungi support nearly all living systems and change how life is understood to work.
- [Michael E. Mann](https://michaelmann.net): Climate scientist at Penn and author of Our Fragile Moment and Science Under Siege.
- [Michael J. Albert](https://sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/michael-albert): Author of Navigating the Polycrisis, on mapping possible futures of capitalism and the Earth.
- [Michael Lawrence](https://cascadeinstitute.org/?p=1454): Co-wrote Positive Pathways through Polycrisis, which argues polycrisis analysis can chart routes to better futures through leverage and tipping points.
- Miguel Centeno: Co-edited How Worlds Collapse, 25 chapters on what past societal falls, systems and complexity teach about the modern world.
- [Monica Sharma](https://www.radicallytransform.org/): Wrote Radical Transformational Leadership, which argues that ordinary people can drive large-scale change by acting on shared values such as fairness and compassion.
- [Morris Berman](https://morrisberman.blogspot.com/): Wrote The Reenchantment of the World, which traces how a detached, mechanistic view of nature displaced a participatory one and argues for an ecological worldview.
- [Mustafa Suleyman](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/): Author of The Coming Wave, on AI and containment.
- [Naomi Alderman](https://www.naomialderman.com/): Wrote The Future, a novel about friends who plan a heist to stop tech companies whose greed threatens society.
- [Naomi Klein](https://naomiklein.org): Author of The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and Doppelganger. Touring End Times Fascism with Astra Taylor in 2026.
- [Naomi Oreskes](https://www.naomioreskes.com): Harvard historian of science, co-author of Merchants of Doubt and The Big Myth.
- [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com): Author of The Black Swan and Antifragile, on risk and fragile systems.
- [Nate Hagens](https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/): Host of The Great Simplification, on energy, ecology and human behavior. Co-author of Reality Blind.
- [Nate Soares](https://mindingourway.com/about/): President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
- [Nav Haq](https://valiz.nl/en/publications/the-aesthetics-of-ambiguity-eng): Co-edited The Aesthetics of Ambiguity, which argues that multiculturalism rests on monocultural thinking and proposes ambiguity in art and politics as a response.
- [Neal Stephenson](https://www.nealstephenson.com): Wrote Termination Shock, a thriller about a plan to reverse global warming through geoengineering and the consequences that follow.
- [Neil Howe](https://www.neilhowe.com): Author of The Fourth Turning Is Here and co-author of The Fourth Turning, on generational cycles of crisis.
- [Nick Bostrom](https://nickbostrom.com): Philosopher and author of Superintelligence and Deep Utopia.
- [Nick Estes](https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nestes): Wrote Our History Is the Future, which places the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline within a long history of Indigenous resistance.
- [Nick Fuller Googins](https://www.nickfg.com): Wrote The Great Transition, a novel about a family in flooded near-future New York after the global movement that answered climate collapse.
- [Nora Bateson](https://www.batesoninstitute.org/): President of the International Bateson Institute. Author of Small Arcs of Larger Circles and Combining.
- [Nouriel Roubini](https://nourielroubini.com/): Wrote MegaThreats, which sets out ten overlapping, interconnected threats, including debt crises and excess money creation.
- [Ortwin Renn](https://rifs-potsdam.de/en/people/ortwin-renn): Wrote Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World, which sets out how societies can assess and manage complex risks with public participation.
- [Otto Scharmer](https://www.ottoscharmer.com): MIT lecturer, author of Theory U, co-founder of the Presencing Institute.
- [Pablo Servigne](https://www.seuil.com/auteur/pablo-servigne/21392): Co-wrote How Everything Can Collapse, which surveys across disciplines how a civilization could collapse, a subject the authors name collapsology.
- [Pascal Gielen](https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/pascal-gielen/): Co-edited The Aesthetics of Ambiguity, which argues that multiculturalism rests on monocultural thinking and proposes ambiguity in art and politics as a response.
- [Paul Hawken](https://paulhawken.com/): Wrote Regeneration, on ending the climate crisis in one generation, and earlier The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism, on business and nature.
- [Paul Kingsnorth](https://www.paulkingsnorth.net): Author of Against the Machine and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.
- [Paul Raskin](https://tellus.org): Wrote Journey to Earthland, which argues an organic planetary civilization has become both a possibility and a necessity.
- [Paulo Coelho](https://www.paulocoelho.com/): Wrote The Alchemist, a fable about a shepherd who travels in search of treasure and learns to follow a personal calling.
- [Peter Frase](https://www.peterfrase.com): Wrote Four Futures, which sketches four possible post-capitalist societies shaped by automation, climate change and class power.
- [Peter Senge](https://www.solonline.org): MIT lecturer and author of The Fifth Discipline. Founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning.
- [Peter Turchin](https://peterturchin.com): Founder of cliodynamics and author of End Times, on elite overproduction and why societies come apart.
- [Peter Zeihan](https://zeihan.com): Geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.
- [Philip E. Tetlock](https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/tetlock/): Author of Superforecasting and Expert Political Judgment.
- [Raoul Martinez](https://canongate.co.uk/books/2133-creating-freedom-power-control-and-the-fight-for-our-future/): Wrote Creating Freedom, a rethink of freedom that challenges common beliefs about free will, markets, media and elections.
- [Ray Dalio](https://www.principles.com/): Wrote Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, subtitled Why Nations Succeed and Fail, which studies long cycles of debt and national power.
- [Rebecca Solnit](https://rebeccasolnit.net): Author of Hope in the Dark and The Beginning Comes After the End.
- [Richard Powers](https://www.richardpowers.net/): Wrote The Overstory, a novel that follows people whose lives become bound up with trees and with efforts to save old forests.
- [Rob Hopkins](https://www.robhopkins.net): Co-founder of the Transition movement and author of From What Is to What If.
- [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://robinwallkimmerer.com): Botanist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry.
- [Roman Krznaric](https://www.romankrznaric.com): Philosopher and author of The Good Ancestor and History for Tomorrow.
- [Ronald L. Trosper](https://ais.arizona.edu/person/ronald-trosper): Wrote Indigenous Economics, which argues for economic models based on relations of care drawn from Indigenous worldviews, not competition.
- [Rufus Pollock](https://rufuspollock.com): Co-founder of Life Itself; wrote From Polycrisis to Metacrisis, which traces entangled crises to an underlying crisis of worldview and values.
- [Ruha Benjamin](https://www.ruhabenjamin.com): Princeton sociologist and author of Race After Technology and Imagination: A Manifesto.
- [Rupert Read](https://www.rupertread.net): Philosopher and climate campaigner, co-founder of the Moderate Flank Incubator. Author of Parents for a Future.
- [Rutger Bregman](https://www.rutgerbregman.com): Author of Humankind, Utopia for Realists and Moral Ambition.
- Ruthanna Emrys: Wrote A Half-Built Garden, a first-contact novel set in a near future where self-governed watershed networks have replaced corporations and nation states.
- [Samantha Sweetwater](https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/): Wrote True Human, which reframes being human as a relationship with life, not a project of control, and joins personal change to the collective future.
- [Sandrine Dixon-Declève](https://www.clubofrome.org/member/dixson-decleve-sandrine/): Co-wrote Earth for All, which proposes economic and social turnarounds on poverty, inequality, gender, food and energy to stay within planetary limits.
- [Sarah Wilson](https://sarahwilson.substack.com/): Author of This One Wild and Precious Life. Writes on the metacrisis at This Is Precious.
- [Shoshana Zuboff](https://shoshanazuboff.com): Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
- [Simon Johnson](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/simon-johnson): MIT economist and co-author of Power and Progress.
- [Starhawk](https://starhawk.org): Wrote The Fifth Sacred Thing, a novel setting an ecological, nonviolent community in 2048 San Francisco against a militarized regime.
- [Stephanie Luce](https://www.practicalradicals.com): Labor scholar at CUNY and co-author of Practical Radicals.
- [Stephen Menendian](https://belonging.berkeley.edu/stephen-menendian): Co-wrote Belonging without Othering, which argues that no group is inherently an other. Also researches structural racism, fair housing and civil rights at Berkeley.
- [Stuart Russell](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell): Berkeley computer scientist and author of Human Compatible.
- [Ted Trainer](https://thesimplerway.info): Wrote on The Simpler Way, which argues societies must shift to simple, cooperative, locally self-sufficient lives with far less production.
- [Thomas Homer-Dixon](https://homerdixon.com): Author of Commanding Hope and The Upside of Down. Founding director of the Cascade Institute, which studies the polycrisis.
- [Thomas Piketty](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/): Wrote Capital in the 21st Century, which argues that inequality grows when the return on capital outpaces economic growth and needs state action to reverse.
- [Tim Jackson](https://cusp.ac.uk/): Ecological economist and author of Prosperity Without Growth and Post Growth.
- [Timnit Gebru](https://dair-institute.org): Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute.
- [Timothy Lenton](https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/19727-tim-lenton): Wrote Positive Tipping Points, which argues people can trigger self-reinforcing shifts in energy, transport and movements because incremental change is too slow.
- [Timothy Snyder](https://timothysnyder.org): Historian and author of On Tyranny and On Freedom.
- [Tobias Rose-Stockwell](https://www.outragemachine.org/): Wrote Outrage Machine, on how the internet has damaged the way people make sense of the world and what can be done to fix it.
- [Toby Ord](https://www.tobyord.com): Oxford philosopher and author of The Precipice, on existential risk and the future of humanity.
- [Tom Chi](https://tomchi.com/): Wrote Climate Capital, which treats economics as a design discipline and argues that investment should build tools fitting the planet's physical limits.
- [Tom Llewellyn](https://www.shareable.net/author/tom-llewellyn/): Co-edited Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons, which collects examples of cities organizing shared resources and services.
- [Tom Murphy](https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/): Physicist and author of Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet.
- [Tristan Harris](https://www.tristanharris.com): Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, on the risks of AI and the attention economy.
- [Tyson Yunkaporta](https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tyson-yunkaporta): Aboriginal scholar and author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story, on Indigenous patterns of thought and the global crisis.
- [Tzeporah Berman](https://spun.earth/team-members/tzeporah-berman): Wrote This Crazy Time, on living with environmental challenge from decades of campaigns; chairs the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
- [Ugo Bardi](https://senecaeffect.substack.com/): Wrote Before the Collapse, which argues that collapse is a normal feature of complex systems, that growth is slow and ruin rapid.
- [Vaclav Smil](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2214462/vaclav-smil/): Energy historian and author of How the World Really Works.
- [Vandana Shiva](https://navdanya.org/): Wrote Water Wars, on the privatization and pollution of water for profit, and Oneness vs the 1%, subtitled Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom.
- [Vanessa Machado de Oliveira](https://decolonialfutures.net/): Author of Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity, and a member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective.
- [William MacAskill](https://www.williammacaskill.com): Philosopher and author of What We Owe the Future.
- [William Rees](https://scarp.ubc.ca/directory/william-rees): Co-creator of the ecological footprint concept.
- [Yancey Strickler](https://www.ystrickler.com): Kickstarter co-founder and author of This Could Be Our Future. Co-founder of Metalabel.
- [Yanis Varoufakis](https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu): Former Greek finance minister and author of Technofeudalism.
- [Yuval Noah Harari](https://www.ynharari.com): Historian and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus.
- [Zack Walsh](https://www.polycrisistransition.com/): Co-wrote on the global polycrisis and its causal mechanisms; his consultancy researches equitable, regenerative responses to entangled crises.
- [Zak Stein](https://www.zakstein.org): Writes on education and the metacrisis. Author of Education in a Time Between Worlds.
- [Zander Grashow](https://adaptandlead.squarespace.com/about): Co-wrote The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, tools for moving organizations through challenges that have no technical fix.