Eva Premk Bogataj

Do languages really change slowly? Across the world, recent data show the opposite. From Ukraine to Australia, Switzerland to Canada, language practices are shifting within just a few years. This essay explores why multilingualism today is less about identity and more about infrastructure, power, security, and future orientation—and what happens when institutions fail to keep up.

Water flows where it wants—but humans capture it in rules, treaties and infrastructure. This essay shows why water management is rarely a technical problem and almost always a political one. Through Switzerland, the Nile, the Mekong, the Himalayas and Slovenia, it reveals how power hides in exceptions, data, timing and the distribution of risk.

Climate change is often framed as a matter of personal choice, yet choices are never equal. From Alpine villages redesigning mobility systems to Himalayan communities adapting to glacial loss, this essay explores how geography, power, and infrastructure shape responsibility. Moving beyond guilt and moral pressure, it argues for an ethics of proportional responsibility — where those with greater capacity transform systems, and those most exposed are supported with dignity, not charity.