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Climate in a Populist Age: Why Decarbonisation Won’t Stop But Will Get Messier
What happens to climate action when the political weather turns populist: more inward-looking, more suspicious of experts, more focused on growth and national pride than on multilateral promises? That’s no longer an abstract question. Across the West, parties and leaders with nativist or “majoritarian” instincts are either in office or within reach of it. Meanwhile, China is doubling down on renewables and exporting the kit to the rest of the world. If you work in energy, ind
Oct 155 min read
Why Growth? Between Necessity and Reckoning
Ask a minister how we’re going to pay for pensions, fund healthcare, equip the armed forces, support innovation, or build green...
Jul 175 min read
America or China - Who Starts Losing First?
Introduction It has become a fashionable provocation to assert that "China is going to win, so the question is how America is going to...
Jul 95 min read
Futures Practice in an Age of AI – Beyond Prediction to Engagement
This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in...
May 224 min read
No solid place to stand – futures thinking in times of increasing uncertainty
For the past many years, future and foresight practitioners have been able to base their work on ground that is stable enough to support...
Mar 134 min read
Deeper into the Forest
Finding paths through the “World in Oak” These days you may find yourself waking up in the morning, switching on or logging into the...
Feb 206 min read
Opportunities, risks and feedback loops
A tool which futurists often want to introduce into any comprehensive futures study is some form of feedback loop – run the outputs of...
Feb 54 min read
Facilitating Futures 2 – working with participants
In our blog of November last year, we said, “Facilitation is a skill. It can be learned”. In that blog, we offered some thoughts about...
Jan 154 min read
Living the future – thinking about experiential futures
In the Futures Toolkit , which was developed by SAMI Consulting in coordination with the Government Office for Science, we included a...
Dec 4, 20244 min read
Securing Tomorrow: Pioneering Strategic Cybersecurity for the Next Decade
Our work on the Futures Toolkit included illustrating the tools with many different case studies. Here’s another – the work that SAMI...
Nov 22, 20243 min read
Facilitating Futures
Futures thinking and foresight is intensely collaborative. Our projects inevitably involve close contact with our clients; and...
Nov 15, 20245 min read
GO-Science Futures Toolkit launched
The new Futures Toolkit produced by the Government Office for Science in conjunction with SAMI Consulting , has been launched! Here's...
Oct 7, 20243 min read
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