#economic
Tiny #Robots made from human #Cells heal damaged #Tissue : Nature
#Meta and #IBM launch ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source #AI development : Guardian
The Transformative #Economic Impact of #ArtificialIntelligence : Medium
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#BuyingBlack isn’t a trend. It’s a routine commitment to lasting #economic change.
https://wordinblack.com/2023/12/why-buying-black-is-a-continuous-economic-investment/
#AirConditioning Discovery Eliminates #Harmful Gases : Sci Am
#IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit #Quantum #Chip : Nature
Is the #Economic System Incompatible with #Climate Action? : Medium
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
Capitalism and Violence-Customs
https://www.anticapitalism.blog/capitalism-and-violence-customs/
#AndrewLeyshon #Capitalism #Capitalist #Classism #Economic #Economics #Education #EducationReform #EdwardSaid #EpitomeScaling #ErichAuerbach #ErnestBecker #FrantzFanon #Hochsprache #JoanneSavage #JohnGuillory #LizBondi #MaryMcCormick #Poverty #ShareMetrics #Violence #ViolenceCustoms #ViolenceNarratives #ViolenceSocieties #ViolenceStudies #AntiCapitalism
The premise that #women exist in #America primarily to be #livestock, birthing and nurturing a steady supply of future workers to be tossed into our #economic grinders and be spit back out as #corporate #profit reports, appears to be growing again after years of being beaten back.
here we go again "it's the pandemic" the pandemic has been over for 2 years stop with your BS blaming game
there was a bounce from the pandemic after we reopen everything, that only last 6 months, as people were spending and going out with what they had saved
after the bounce it dropped back down to normal levels and the growth after that has been from the plans counties have put in place for there economy
Yesterday, the #Nasdaq opened lower but recovered most of its losses and ended the day almost flat. There is currently some #consolidation, possibly due to uncertainty about upcoming #Economic #data.
“[With a] goal is to inspire and enable innovators to embrace #Design in a more comprehensive way, by encompassing tools, methodologies, and mindsets that prioritise human-centred design and … system-aware approaches [and a] mission is to achieve measurable improvements in innovation outcomes (#Economic, #Societal, and #Environmental) by embedding excellent design throughout the #Innovation process.”
Last night, I had a #dream that I was to give a presentation on #TheTrial by Franz Kafka from an #economic point of view. It was assigned on very short notice, and it evolved over the course of the dream from an informal discussion to an address to a large crowd. A #king or #prince came up to meet me before my talk. When I woke up, I was still thinking about things I could say in a speech that would never be delivered. Talk about #Kafkaesque. #literature #surreal
#Economic Policy of Fascism In Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUis3zy67zA
#Vietnamese firms and their #Chinese peers inked 21 #agreements & #economic contracts in agro-forestry-fishery import & export, trade, logistics & high-tech agriculture at a November 30 #BusinessNetworking #forum held in the northern coastal province of #QuangNinh.
The forum took place as part of the ongoing 15th #Vietnam #China #tourism & #TradeFair in #MongCai city.
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnamese-chinese-firms-seal-21-deals-across-sectors/272142.amp
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #ASEAN #AsianTradeMarkets #Geopolitics #AsianNews
Dozens of #employees staged a #protest at sudden layoffs at a #China #Telecom facility in the northern province of #Shaanxi, according to the #HongKong-based #ChinaLabourBulletin's #StrikeMap of industrial #disputes.
The map showed more than 400 disputes taking place across #China during October and November, suggesting that for many workers, #economic #hardship is beginning to bite.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/struggling-economy-11302023100851.html
@Powerfromspace1 "If a #Martian were asked to pick the most efficient and humane #economic systems on earth, it would certainly not choose the countries which rely most on #markets" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Market#P
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#FirstAliyah predates #Zionism.
#Zionist Movement was born of reasons well-known, among which was virulent #antisemitism in #Europe & #Russia.
#Palestinian authorities, themselves under #Turkish #occupation, begged #Ottomans to prohibit #Russian #Jews from immigrating even before the arrival of Zionists — most of whom arrived only after #WWI.
Prior to #WWI, #Palestinian #grievance against Jews was one of #economic #competition, not #occupation or #oppression.
They never tolerated Jews
Bayside Development Corporation, the #business arm of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, has embedded Mi’kmaw worldview into its business responsibilities.
Traditional #laws and #customs are captured in eight principles the corporation uses as a lens to evaluate #economic opportunity.
CEO Rose Paul explained Bayside’s philosophy during a keynote speech at the Indigenomics Bay Street conference in Toronto.
#Indigenous #FirstNations #economy #Indigenomics #reconciliation
This week features significant #economic events, including home sales, consumer confidence, GDP, and #Fed discussions.
Amid economic data releases, the #cryptomarket buzzes with heightened investor sentiment and increasing excitement. #crypto
https://coinpedia.org/news/crucial-week-for-crypto-as-economic-calendar-and-fed-speeches-could-change-the-path-of-crypto/
#nordamerika #politik #sudamerika
#kuba #us #vereinigtestaaten #northamerica #politics #southamerica
#cuba #sanctions #unitedstates #economic #blockade
Eine solche Haltung könnte auf ein #verbrechen des Völkermords hinauslaufen.
Da die zahlreichen #sanktionen und die ihnen zugrundeliegenden US-Gesetze rechtswidrig sind, müssen sie aufgehoben werden. Die #usa müssen für den Schaden aufkommen, der dem kubanischen Staat, seinen Unternehmen und Bürgern entstanden ist.
📅 Next Week: #CPCCGWebinar Thurs 30 Nov
Peter Brandon from the University of Albany will discuss whether the legalisation of #SameSexMarriage in the US has improved the long-term #economic security of same-sex couples in terms of #homeownership.
Register to join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/753/CPC_CG_Webinar__Peter_Brandon
What Is Climate Change? A Really Simple Guide
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #tutorial #learning #climatechange #emissions #affects #effects #extremeweather #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #coast #coastal #climate #humanimpacts #warming #globalwarming #population #greenhousegasemissions #fossilfuels #CO2 #atmosphere #industrialrevolution #temperature #environment #heatwaves #droughts #floods #flooding #death #oceancurrents #watersecurity #watersupply #foodsecurity #economicimpact #damage #economic #model #modeling #biodiversity #ecosystems #environment
The #neoliberals are winning over all parties. If [UK] #Labour see “#health and #workinprogress as two sides of the same coin" they are valuing people only by #economic activity. As inhumane as the #Conservative party.
Valuing people as economic input, and #disabled people as worth less, opens up greater abuse when health and social resources are determined by #QALY and #DALY (quality / disability adjusted life years) measures.
People are not economic property.
This is endemic across all businesses, because #business leadership is not selected for management skill dealing with real people in anything like a sustainable or #humane way.
They are selected and self-selected for the worst possible traits.
Our #economic system is so profoundly broken, I’m skeptical it can be reclaimed.
(Of course, this is notwithstanding the systemic #sexism and #racism that is so pervasive and accepted it goes almost wholly unremarked upon.)
The Economist argues that Trump's #ForeignPolicy & #macroeconomic policies would have a significant negative impact on the #world as a whole. #Trump would almost certainly make moves to gut #NATO. And he may very well pursue another package of tax cuts for the wealthy as he did in 2017, which would spike #inflation & drag down #global #economic #markets.
However, the Economist warns that the greatest danger Trump presents is in "his own country."
#America is facing its 'worst #rate of #FoodInsecurity in years, #foodbanks say. Here's #why.
“From where I’m sitting, after 28 years of f#oodbanking, what we have is the logical result of 40 years of dire #Economic #Inequality,"
yeah it is actually insane that literally millions of #people have been murdered by the united states in the name of anticommunism, just for daring to want an #anarchist #society, people are permanently disabled or traumatized, children are born with birth defects from us bombs to this day, many #countries are still under crushing #economic sanctions or still living in the aftermath of us backed #rightwing coups, and it really is insignificant to most #humans
Austerity Is an #Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost #Capital
https://catalyst-journal.com/2023/11/capital-order-clara-mattei-book-review
> #Austerity policies have their roots in efforts by economic elites to crush #working-class power after WWI and redistribute #income upward. To reverse austerity, #democratic #control over #economic #policymaking is essential.
CLARA E. MATTEI
The #Capital Order: How #Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to #Fascism
University of Chicago Press, 2022
`In a reversal of every #economic expansion for the last three decades, #wages since the #pandemic have grown fastest for workers in the lowest-paid rungs. It’s the “revenge of the blue collar worker,” one anonymous Amazon worker wrote in February — a month that saw employers hire half a million people but tech companies lay off 10,000.`
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/revenge-blue-collar-worker-bidenomics-110000814.html
🔎 This week's #job opportunities @Radboud_uni involve #research in fields like #health, #digital skills, #economic participation, #neurobiology, #law, #neuropsychology, #magnetisation, #AI, #sustainability Take a look at https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities #academia
The Great Simplification: Energy, Environment, & Our Future by #NateHagens
"This 32 minute animation - in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The #GreatSimplification - an #economic/cultural transition coming to a planet near you.
Part 1 describes how our species got to this point, and the role of #energy in our economies
Part 2 gives an overview of the relationship between energy, #technology, #money and the #environment and how global human society is (currently) akin to a metabolic heat engine
Part 3 gives an overview of individual (and aggregate) human behavior tendencies in a novel modern environment & why these dynamics are relevant to our current challenges
Part 4 describes how people look at the future wearing different popular lenses, but when wearing a 'systems' lens, it becomes clear that a Great Simplification is soon approaching." https://youtu.be/-xr9rIQxwj4
#permaculture
From 06 Nov: Outside the Box: Why The Economist Must Cool Down and Back Off - In times of war propaganda thrives. In the times we are living in, defined by not just one but two ... https://www.fairobserver.com/business/technology/artificial-intelligence/outside-the-box-why-the-economist-must-cool-down-and-back-off/ #ai #ai-news #artificial-intelligence #chatgpt #economic #gaza #israel #political #technology #the-economist #war
The continuing #costoflivingcrisis is reflected in a pre-xmas drop in consumer spending & suggest that a winter #recession is more likely;
Politicians should recall #Keynes focus on 'effective demand' in driving economic activity.
Whatever else is wrong about #economic #inequality, if you impoverish the less wealthy (who are much more likely to spend their income/wealth) then you prompt a decline in economic activity.
Of course, this is exactly what the BoE want, whatever the social costs!
Check out my latest co-authorship, "Revising economic injury levels for Lygus spp. in canola: The value of historical yield and insect data to improve decision making"
#Canola is one of the most important cash #crops in #Canada, but yields can be reduced by several #insect #pests including #Lygus spp. (Hemiptera: Miridae). Canola cultivars have been improved substantially since #economic thresholds were developed for Lygus in the 1990's...
The 12 Step program to create and maintain the #economic dogma that benefits the #elite:
1. Have a bunch of rich people create private educational institutions.
2. Call those institutions the #ivyleague (Ooooo ... how prestigious!)
3. Hire your elite #crony friends to teach there and call them #Doctors of #Philosophy (again, prestigious).
4. Assemble groups of highly impressionable post adolescents salivating for prestige in a room.
5. Introduce them to their #PhD #God who holds absolute sway over their #future #prosperity.
6. Force them to compete against one other over who can best regurgitate the God's orthodox #ideology.
7. Reward those that most successfully regurgitate the God's orthodox ideology with great #jobs and access to influence by giving them A's and references.
8. Punish those who think critically by relegating them to low paying jobs and obscurity through low grades and withholding references.
9. Pat your fellow #toadies on the back a lot.
10. Scorn dissenters as #heterodox #fools.
11. Rinse and repeat for #generations.
#Economics - I do not understand you at all.
[Another toot (sorry, I have now lost it) sent me to this thing:
https://www.commsec.com.au/content/dam/EN/Campaigns_Native/stateofstates/October2023/CommSec_State_of_the_States_October_2023.pdf]
It is a ranking of the '#Economic Performance' of the eight Australian states, written by professional economists at #CommSec.
It ranks the economies using eight measures. These measures imply eight axes that somehow(1) locate each state in some kind of #economic space. Somehow(2), each position in this eight-space is assessed and somehow(3) the headline "Victoria is now Australia's best performing economy" is derived.
The report implies that (I suppose) abs(i1 ... i8) is some kind of number of times Victoria ranked in the top three in each indicator:-
"Victoria was consistently strong across all indicators". But no precise function is presented. Fine. It is a populist report. You can't always footnote everything.
Q: What would be your idea about how/which #indicators should be measured?
A: Did you say "inflation"? Nup. That one doesn't count, it's in "other indicators" and is not formally included.
Did you say "wage growth"? No, that's "other" as well. How about "Home Prices"? no, not that one neither.
This feels a lot like baloney. When words are this slippery, the authors are trying to mislead, misdirect, or dissemble. I have to ask why? Why are the authors doing this?
My feeling: There is no such thing as "Economic Performance" there is no such thing as a "Strong" Economy. There is no such thing as "The Economy" - it does not exist.
#Economics? Yep, sure, that exists. #TheEconomy? It's no more real than The TARDIS, and it's a lot less relevant to my daily happiness.
“What I'm afraid of is #FirstNations’ involvement in this stranded #asset, which could be #economic smallpox… I hope they do their due diligence.”
New #book describes #pipeline activism grounded in First Nations spiritual belief and ceremony.
Since the #Oct7 attack, the #Biden admin has adopted #Israel’s policy of likening #Hamas to the #ISIS & pressured foreign govts & financial institutions to cut ties w/ the group…. “There can be no more business as usual w/Hamas,” #Blinken said at a news conference in #Qatar on Oct 13.
Treasury launched a global campaign, imposing #sanctions on Hamas members & financial facilitators in #Algeria, #Sudan, #Turkey, Qatar & other places. Hamas receives #economic & #military support from #Iran….
As #RachelReeves continues to assert her tough approach to fiscal 'discipline', @sjwrenlewis explores what this might mean & why in the end this tells us more about the lack of #economic literacy in the media than the (potential) intent of an incoming Labour Govt.
'those who criticise [her anouncements on economic policy] really should focus their attention on a media that makes such fictions a sensible political strategy for a Labour opposition that wants power'!
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-does-being-iron-chancellor.html
One way #classism shows up in discussions of UK #economic policy is the way that regulations that are intended to protect #workers are judged by (and criticised for) the 'burden' they put on #businesses.
However, seldom do we see the pressure to increase #profits & suppress wages described as burden being put onto workers.
All regulation is about trade-offs & balances but not when one side is favoured by an aspiration to relieve it of all 'burdens' while the other's burdens are dismissed
#Hundreds #protest outside #DowningStreet after #RishiSunak’s #antitrans #comments.
#LGBTQ+ #rights #groups and #organisations collectively #shamed Sunak, claiming he was using #culturewars to #distract voters from the “real #social, #economic and #environmental #issues” facing the #UK.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/rishi-sunak-downing-street-trans-protest/
"#Iberá was...degraded by #humans and is...being recovered by humans...what we can achieve if we...[restore] an #ecosystem..."
"Our [mission] is to...help reverse the #biodiversity #extinction crisis...protecting what is left...reintroducing #KeystoneSpecies...then...develop #economic activity for the local people..."
#TompkinsConservation #NationalGeographic #LastWildPlaces #Argentina #Rewilding
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation.
For instance, this work uses an #EvolutionaryEconomics lens to consider #AI, finding among many things that #BigTech dominates enablement (hardware, data) and production (frameworks, algorithms, visualisation), benefitting from economies of scale and scope, especially the wide access to #data from their own sources and their many dependent customers
``the seamless, digital connectedness enabled by AI-as-technology is, in our view, a unique feature that we have yet to fully grasp in terms of its #economic, #managerial, and even #psychological implications''
“Today’s young people have grown up & been #politicized as the age of #polycrisis has emerged, during which forms of #climate, #economic, #technological, & #geopolitical turmoil have grown & reinforced each other to a degree never seen before,” OSF president Mark Malloch Brown wrote. “So, although most people globally still have faith in #democracy, that faith is running on fumes.”
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #Power #SuperPower #geopolitics #Republicans #Minoritarianism #Authoritarianism
We Need an #Economic #Bill of #Rights to Save American Democracy
unprecedented concentrations of wealth and power, and devastated the lives of millions—the American political system, indeed, American democratic life is in jeopardy. The time has come to do what our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents did. The time has come to make America progressive, indeed, radical again. The time has come to renew the fight for an Economic Bill of Rights for All Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights
Sharing this piece I co-authored with my @ceprdc colleague Sylvia Allegretto on where the focus should be with respect to
#UAWOnStrike. We need to be paying attention to what the #strike means for the #workers involved, and how their fight speaks to the core issues of #worker #power and #economic #inequality.
Meanwhile off the coast of #Scotland development has stopped on the fourth largest #offshore #windpower project in the UK.
Rapid #inflation in costs & no Govt. response on the earlier agreed Green Tax levy on such developments (to recognise the impact of such increased costs) means that like #Vattenfall before it, Community Winpower had decided it cannot continue.
Rather than focus on #IHT, this is the #economic & #tax issue #RishiSunak should have focussed on!
#sustainableenergy is vital!
The difficulty of #economic forecasting was neatly exhibited on the FT website this morning:
Two pieces, next to each other.
One, headlined (& arguing) 'America's mini-miracle may be fleeting' - suggesting the Biden 'stimulus'' effect will quickly fade;
the other, headlined 'The US is on the brink of a new growth cycle' arguing that America is about to move to a period of long-term growth (even if there are short-term 'risks').
While not completely incompatible, the contrast is stark!
#MiningTechnology 📆 September 13, 2023 The #economic potential of extracting raw #minerals from #space for use on Earth or for #InSpaceManufacturing is infinite. The #asteroid ☄️ database Asterank has estimated the resource values for asteroids tracked by #NASA. It claims that the ten closest and most cost-effective #asteroids to mine from #Earth contain around $1.5trn 💰 of natural #resources in today’s economy, which is equivalent to the current annual value of the entire global 🌍 #mining ⚒️ industry.
The current level of investment 💵 into #SpaceExploration and the potential exhaustion of Earth’s resources mean that #AsteroidMining is more of an inevitability than a possibility. https://www.mining-technology.com/comment/asteroid-mining-resource-rich-developing-economies/
The ethical problem of #capitalism or #communism isn't the "system", it's the corrupt people, the cheats, liars, the greenwashers, who are not interested in the common good.
The question is, which #economic system will regulate the cheats? An economic system in which private industry owners control social media & politicians? or a democratic work environment?
International Marxist Radio: Why We Are #Communists
Episode webpage: https://podcast.marxist.com/2023/08/02/why-we-are-communists/
Media file: https://archive.org/download/imrep30bgwhywearecommunists/IMRep30BGWhyWeAreCommunists.mp3
#Coastal #Atlantic countries agreement on #economic development, #environmental protection, #maritime issues, importation of #fentanyl & more
#Biden #UN
#DeclarationOnAtlanticCooperation
https://apnews.com/article/declaration-atlantic-cooperation-biden-un-climate-926b498285b3e85d7ec7d5857aaa6379
A #RuralNewDeal for the 21st Century
https://pdamerica.org/a-rural-new-deal-for-the-21st-century/
#Progressive #Democrats of #America (PDA) in partnership with the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative (#RUBI) introduce the #Rural #NewDeal, a ten pillar #policy platform designed to reverse decades of #economic decline, and cultivate long-term rural and #smalltown prosperity and #resilience through federal investment in bottom-up solutions.
#Biden said he was dispatching 2 of his top aides — the acting #labor secretary, #JulieSu, & a top #economic adviser, #GeneSperling — to #Detroit to help the parties return to the #bargaining table.
“Let’s be clear, no one wants a #strike. Say it again. No one wants a strike,” President #Biden said in remarks from the #WhiteHouse. “But I respect the #workers #right to use their options on in the #CollectiveBargaining system, & I understand the workers’ frustration.”
…he left no doubt his intention to make good on his 2020 campaign to always have the backs of the #unions.
“Over generations, #autoworkers sacrificed so much to keep the #industry alive & strong, especially the #economic crisis & the #pandemic,” #Biden said. “#Workers deserve a #FairShare of the #benefits they helped create.”
He added that the #automakers “should go further to ensure record #corporate #profits mean record #contracts for the #UAW.”
While I accept that I'm *very* lucky to be able to retire early (which I did 2 years ago) & into a pretty stable financial situation....
the thing that has become pretty obvious to me over the last 24 months is the level of background #stress & tension I had been working under for pretty much my entire working life of 43 years...
because, now its (very obviously) just not there.... it makes me realise #workers need even more managerial reform than I had presumed!
#economic reform is urgent!
‘I’m OK, but Things Are Terrible’
(um…, yeah, that pretty much sums it up)
from Paul Krugman
…Poll after poll shows Americans rating #economic conditions as very bad & giving #Biden very low approval for his economic management.
The strange thing is that these bad ratings are persisting even as the #economy, by any normal measure, has been doing extremely well.
This podcast is an excellent overview of the Global Economy by the economist #RichardWolff
Where is the Global #Economy heading?
Important knowledge if you are interested in mitigating inequality & #ClimateChange. To do that, we need to mitigate the #economic system
Global #Capitalism: Capitalism Turns to the Dark Side (aka an #Authoritarian State)
Episode webpage: https://globalcapitalism.libsyn.com/capitalism-turns-to-the-authoritarian-state-july-2023
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/globalcapitalism/GC.July2023.mp3?dest-id=640710
#fascism #twitter #authoritarism #politics #money #inflation
The next #culturewar may have an #economic spin:
There is growing resistance to the #cashless society as engineered by the #financialservcies, with much criticism starting to focus on (very early) plans for the global Central Bank of Digital Currencies.
While some of the vocal critics of #digitalcurrency (such as #NigelFarage) have a long culture war history, others are coming to this from concerns around #inequality, #surveillance & suspicions about #banking's fee capture for e-transactions!
The work they did that was honored summarized (PDF): https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/popular-economicsciences2016.pdf
Details on the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in #Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred #Nobel 2016: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2016/summary/
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#business #contracts #agents #actors #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike
How We Forgot the “Jobs” Part of the #MarchOnWashington for #Jobs and Freedom
The #antiracism of #MartinLutherKing Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech has overshadowed the demands for #economic justice at the historic 1963 #protest.
There was 10-point list called “What We Demand.”
Seven is “a massive federal program to train and place all #unemployed workers — Negro and white"
Eight is “a national #minimumwage act that will give all Americans a decent #StandardOfLiving"
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/28/march-on-washington-jobs/
#Externalities are the costs or benefits of an economic activity experienced by an unrelated third party.
Externalities can be both positive or negative, and are #economic, #social, or #environmental byproducts stemming from either the production or consumption of a good or service.
Externalities are problematic when individuals, households, and firms do not internalize the indirect costs of or the benefits from their actions.
UK's second Q 'growth' in #GDP = 0.2% - while allowing the UK to continue to avoid a 'technical' #recession, for those thinking growth is the answer, things look pretty grim....
Whether this is the right measure for #economic 'success' is fo course another matter - here is something I wrote in response to earlier Q. announcement of GDP figures - really we might be better advised to think differently about our economic plight....
Yes, and...
The Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #philosophy and #strategy to mitigate #ClimateChange includes rethinking the purposes and goals of #capitalist #production and #economic growth.
What we do, and why we do, aren't separate from how we live and die.
#MontereyCounty Supervisors Luis Alejo (District 1), Glenn Church (D2), Chris Lopez (D3), Wendy Root Askew (D4), and Mary Adams (D5) voted unanimously on July 25, 2023 to support the designation of the proposed United States #Bicycle Route 95 through the County of #Monterey. https://monterey.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6296375&GUID=006F8774-513D-49DD-BA7C-60321077C9E8&Options=&Search=
As the Board Report states, this "supports the Board’s efforts to encourage #Economic Development through #biking and #tourism
Yes! #BikesMeanBusiness. And visitors love to #bike in our county, which is why an alternate URL for https://bikemonterey.org is https://tipsfortourists.com.
See some of the many who enjoy bicycle #touring through Monterey County: https://bikemonterey.org/bicycle-touring-through-monterey-county-pacific-coast-bike-route-and-other-routes.html
#BikeTooter #USBR95 #ACAPacCoast #cycling #BikeTouring #BicycleTouring
In the first 3 chapters of this remarkable book, #MikeKonczal covers the history -- #economic , #rhetoric & #politics of: land, labor, and life.
There's a “the fictitious understanding of them as commodities. Advocates for free homesteads, limitations on working hours, and #socialinsurance each faced significant opposition in trying to remove each of these spheres of life from the sole logic of the market.”
Discusses social problems -- so familiar to current economic challenges.
The financial cost of #heat
"While the true #economic impact has yet to be tabulated for this weather event — the nature of #ExcessiveHeat, its varying effects and sizable reach make that a tall order — recent studies have shown that #ExtremeHeat could cost the #UnitedStates $100 billion annually from the #productivity loss alone. If left unchecked, it could sap away one-sixth of global economic activity by the year 2100."
#Climate action is not expensive
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/23/economy/extreme-heat-economic-impact/index.html
#Harm of #antiLGBTQ #laws includes #economic #pain for #communities, #communities
As #antiLGBTQ #laws spread across #Tennessee and the rest of the #country, many #LGBTQ #people and their #families are assessing whether they should #move to a #state with a more #LGBTQ-#friendly #politicalclimate
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #NewMexico #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Dr Alex Chapman (New Economics Foundation) on the spurious claims that #airport expansion contributed to #economic development:
'The reality is declining business air travel, declining wages for air travel workers, declining job numbers & declining domestic tourism spending in the UK. And that’s before you consider the rise in noise, air pollution and dangerous emissions'.
We need to stop believing the self-serving claims that more flying is a good thing for the UK!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/17/airport-expansion-no-boost-productivity-growth-report
📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Having Too Much: #Philosophical Essays on #Limitarianism' by Ingrid Robeyns (ed.).
'Having Too Much' is the first academic volume devoted to #limitarianism: the idea that using #economic or #ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in #economic and #political thought.
One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as #Plato, #Aquinas, and #Spinoza. But this book is the first time in contemporary #political #philosophy that #limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.
Including some of the key published articles as well as new chapters, 'Having Too Much' is necessary reading for scholars and students of #politicaltheory and #philosophy, as well as anyone interested in questions of #distributivejustice.
Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338
The Best And Worst Case Scenarios For Sea Level Rise
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/its-absolutely-guaranteed-the-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-sea-level-rise <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #hydrology #water #hydrospatial #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #global #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #india #london #china #mumbai #bangladesh #NYC #newyork #newyorkcity #cities #megacities #impacts #coast #coastal #flood #flooding #stormsurge #infrastructure #climatechange #extremeweather #erosion #deposition #sedimentation #salinity #groundwater #groundwaterintrusion #groundwatersalinity #subsidence #precipitation #rainfall #storms #geology #engineeringgeology #naturalhazard #cyclone #hurricanes #economic #economy #mitigation #costs #publicsafety #publichealth #coastalresilience #coastalcommunities #coastalengineering #coastline #coastalprotection #future #change
#Solidarity #Economics
https://geo.coop/articles/solidarity-economics
How do we transform #societal structures and pave the way to #economic #democracy?
Professor Jessica Gordon-Nembhard explores the potential of #cooperatives and #solidarityeconomics as pathways towards #economicdemocracy and #justice. Nembhard demonstrates how cooperative economics can counteract the #exploitation inherent in #capitalist systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTSMDGZB3nM
"Any challenge to [#China's #economic] progress – and to the image of China – is perceived as hostile.
Not too long ago, that included #ClimateChange, which, from about 2009-2011, was often depicted in Chinese books and popular TV shows as a Western #hoax designed to torpedo China’s economic rise."
The messaging has now changed - but #ClimateMisinformation lives on.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/3/chinas-new-problem-climate-lies-fuelled-by-nationalism
Oh look. #ChatBots are completely buggering the #Web economic model. Bye-bye, ad spend! And farewell, it seems, to the Web as we know it.
"#Junk websites filled with #AIGenerated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
"More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality #Content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast...
"...So far, there aren’t any easy solutions, especially given that #Advertising props up the entire #Economic model of the internet...
#Local #governments and multiple agencies, i should say– #Hennepin county is standing off to the side acting as if they aren't complicit in the cruelty but their #security doesn't let people stand 2 minutes on #county #land that they have lying around by the acre.
The #Community #Planning and #Economic #Development office of #Minneapolis (CPED) is hoarding even more land, which used 100s of cops to finally displace the long-lived @nearnorth camp.
Further undermining the #economic arguments against #climate action:
"In the US, two-thirds of the financial losses from lost fossil fuel assets would affect the top 10% of wealth holders, with half of that affecting the top 1%. Because the wealthiest people tend to have a 'diverse portfolio of investments', it found, any losses would still make up less than 1% of this group’s net wealth."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study
Primary source
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00220-9
'Britain has for too long presented one face to the world while concealing the awful truth...'
Aditya Chakrbortty summarises the work of a research group at Manchester University which aims to show how our delusional #politics is contributing to our #economic decline...
a depressing but vital read - its worth a few minutes of your time.
More myopia from #JeremyHunt:
Hunt has decided that the key to our #economic recovery is (re)building #productivity in the #publicsector; so, yes, more 'reform' is on the cards.
Now, a cynic, might point out that if the #Tories hadn't spent 13 years defunding public services, conducting wars of attrition with the its #workforce & generally degrading most aspects of public provision, then there might be less of a problem.
By as with the #NHS Hunt seems to have a no memory or shame at all!
The global #economic crash? Sooner or later?
A young child can understand that if they keep taking, without replenishing, "it" will run out.
Generally, the world #economy is founded on a taking, without replenishing, #unsustainable model.
Capitalism has stolen the commons, & that's an #ecological tragedy in the making.
Upstream: Ep. 14: The #Green Transition – The Problem with Green #Capitalism Part 1.
Episode webpage: https://www.upstreampodcast.org/greentransitionpt1
1/ tentative, immature #economic thoughts from yours truly (ala #socialism, #communism, #capitalism).
Consider this both a humble proffering of theory and an openness to learn.
I have been hesitant to discuss my economic #philosophy for two reasons:
1. I don't consider myself well-educated on the subject
2. There seem to be three major positions (socialism, communism, and capitalism) and I don't find myself comfortably fitting into any of them.
Perhaps there is another ism I'm missing
I'm Siv. I live, work, create, and activate in #Lansing, #Michigan, #USA.
I believe effective #praxis toward global #MutualAid society must center #economic #justice and #healing traumas in the human #psyche. Cultural violence is a durable response to #scarcity.
I help run the services and facilities of the #praxisdotred #tech #collective and #hacker house, such as this #mastodon instance.
#GenderAbolitionist #transhumanist #posthumanist #libertarian #communist #leftist #vegan #introduction
For those of you who missed the boost yesterday, here's @sjwrenlewis masterly critique of the reputation of #NigelLawson.
SWL argues that there is actual a significant continuity between the #economic mistakes - based on intellectual arrogance - wrought by Lawson & the arrogance of #LizTruss and others in the #Tories of today.
This is a very useful corrective to quite a few laudatory Lawson obits that have appeared!
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-poor-judgements-of-nigel-lawson.html
:ablobwavereverse: A little about me.
Dad of 2 kidults and a teenager.
Priviledged to live on beautiful #Kaurna country south of #Adelaide #SouthAustralia.
Read mostly #nonfiction. Play keyboard, #bass and #doublebass. Design and build musical instruments and #electronics. Fix stuff to prevent it going to landfill #upcycling
Have had five different careers - urban planning, management consulting, #environmental consulting, overseas development, and #economic development. Have lived in three continents. Apparently I got bored easily.
Was once conscripted in a civil #war. I survived by being deliberately useless at everything I was told to do. Learned firsthand how terrible and ridiculous war is.
I am eternally grateful for all these things.