Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
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Supply Chain Crisis; A Brooklyn View
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Lots of recent sturm und drang regarding the global supply chain crisis.. These problems have yet to hit us, although I suppose it might be prudent to stock up on toilet papa= […]
Read more...In 2021, US on Pace for Most Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Since Records Began
“What we are seeing now with these increasing disasters is with just one degree of warming on our planet,” said one scientist. “We have to choose now between bad or terrible outcomes.”
Read more...Waste Watch: U.S. Lags on Plastics Legislation
Despite leading the world in per capita plastics consumption, the U.S. lags in efforts to do anything about disposing of plastics waste.
Read more...Climate Advocates Voice Concerns Over Fossil Fuel Handouts in Stalled Infrastructure Legislation
One month after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, infrastructure and “build back better” talk ignores survival needs on climate crisis frontlines
Read more...Harry and Meghan Take a Private Jet – AGAIN! – This Time from a NYC Climate Action Event Back to LA
Harry and Meghan talk a good climate change game, but have hopped on nearly two dozen private jets during the last two years. We’ve noticed.
Read more...Avoiding Water Bankruptcy in the Drought-Troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran Can Learn from Each Other
Water woes are becoming part of the new normal. What can be done to alleviate them?
Read more...Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Read more...How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
Read more...Vaccine-Only Mandates as a Manifestation of the Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
Why the vaccine-focused approach is not likely to develop necessarily to the advantage of the Biden Administration.
Read more...Nick Turse: Remembering America’s Civilian War Dead
Time for the US to take a hard look at the magnitude of civilan deaths incurred as a by-product of our Middle East nation-breaking.
Read more...It Isn’t Over When The Fat Lady Sings – The First Russian Strategic Assessment of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) Submarine Deal
A look at the AUKUS deal in light of Chinese and Russian submarine capabilities.
Read more...Rapid Shift to Clean Energy Could Save ‘Trillions.’ But Corporate-Backed Groups Are Fighting the Transition in US Budget Bill
Even as evidence mounts that moving faster to clean energy sources would benefit businesses and the planet, the usual suspects fight back.
Read more...Algorithmic Management
Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Read more...Can China’s Outsized Real Estate Sector Amplify a Delta-Induced Slowdown?
Whether by accident or design, the implosion of China’s Evergrande will take some air out of its inflated real estate sector. What then?
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