Climate Migration Frightens… Climate Poverty Is Frightening!
Taking a stab at how climate change pressures will increase poverty and migration.
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Tesla’s Cybertruck Dead Last In Truck Survey
Only non-truck owners are keen about Tesla’s “cybertruck”.
Read more...Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
What has New York done to lower its suicide rate?
Read more...To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector
More political leaders are coming around to the idea of using government economic muscle to combat climate change. But will they act?
Read more...No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
Read more...Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse
When is a payday loan still pretty much a payday loan? When it’s an installment loan with annual interest rates over 100%.
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“Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
On the deliberately vicious use of supposedly use of less lethal weapons.
Read more...Impeachment, the House as Prosecutor, and Justice
If we consider the House as a prosecutor, is the House acting as an ethical prosecutor should?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, employment situation, banking, commodities, Tesla, United Airlines, the ozone layer, permafrost, ocean oxygen, Portuguese wildfires, Florida keys, groundwater, USC corruption, Uber, climate change and labor
Read more...The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
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Elizabeth Warren’s “Foreign Policy”
Yves here. I hate to seem unduly hard on Warren, but she has made having detailed and supposedly well informed policy positions here calling card. This post by Ilargi examines one she volunteered, as opposed to backed into by being questioned in an interview or a debate. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer. an editor at Automatic […]
Read more...Estuaries, Climate Change, and “Blue Carbon”
Estuaries defined, whether they are carbon sources or carbon sinks, and an excursion into the world of climate NGOs through “blue carbon.”
Read more...Using History to Understand Hidden Wealth in the UK
Between 1920 and 1992, English elites concealed 20-32% of their wealth. Accounting for hidden wealth eliminates one-third of the observed decline of top 10% wealth share over the past century.
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