Author Archives: Yves Smith
600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don’t Act Now
Plastic damage to oceans is getting worse. But do we have adequate remedies, even if we had the will to implement them?
Read more...Experts: U.S. LNG Growth Could Slow Next Year
Too many are putting their eggs in the LNG basket.
Read more...EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?
the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...Russian Army Turning Out the Lights: US Losing Electricity War in Ukraine
The dire and worsening state of Urkraine’s electricity supply has gone curiously unnoticed by Western commentators.
Read more...Links 10/8/2022
A Pennsylvania Prison Gets a Scandinavian-Style Makeover – and Shows How the US Penal System Could Become More Humane
Better prision approaches can reduce stress and improve outcomes for inmates and staff. But that’s not the point, is it?
Read more...Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27
Critics say the US-led Aim4C coalition will sideline nature-friendly farming in favour of polluting status quo agriculture.
Read more...‘Great Resignation’? ‘Quiet Quitting’? If You’re Surprised by America’s Anti-Work Movement, Maybe You Need to Watch More Movies
Movies show that some Americans have not been on board with the cult of work.
Read more...The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+
The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.
Read more...Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years studying and thinking about human prehistory.
Read more...A Wee Rant About the State of Travel
Travel is no fun.
Read more...Links 10/6/2022
KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken the democracy, economy and rights of Britain.
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