The New World Order?

“At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, in what was perhaps the most pointed foreign policy speech any Canadian leader has given in a generation, Mark Carney declared that ‘the old order is not coming back.’” His observation was neither surprising nor unique but finally spoke the words out loud that many people have been thinking for a long time.
If the old order is gone, then we are no longer debating reform—we are confronting collapse.
Across multiple fronts, the dominant systems of the modern world show signs of fracture: capitalism strained by its own excesses, economism reducing human value to metrics, and the long arc of colonization and dominance reaching its limits. The extractive logic that has governed growth, power, and progress is increasingly at odds with the ecological and social realities it has helped produce.
At the same time, awareness is catching up. Climate disruption is no longer an abstract. Global markets reveal themselves as tightly coupled and inherently fragile. The illusion of separation—between nations, economies, and ecosystems—is eroding.
What follows from this is unclear. Collapse and transformation often share the same landscape.
Are we entering a period of systemic failure—or the early stages of a necessary reorganization toward something more adaptive, more ecological, and less extractive? Is such a transition still within our control, or already underway beyond it?
If the structures that shaped the last century are indeed giving way, the question is no longer whether change is coming—but whether it will be navigated, endured or even, survived.
Let’s talk about it!

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