>"China will keep winning friends from Chile to Mexico, regardless of a forthcoming shift in U.S. policy toward the region."

>"Nine countries have now reported outbreaks on mink farms."

>"The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. Meanwhile, vaccinations have already started in some countries as cases _...Read More_

>"Our planet was forced to adapt to a new reality with masks, disinfectant and - for many - queues for food."

"The Netherlands, the UK, Spain and France are diagnosing more new cases every day per capita than the US. Iran is battling a third wave of infections, and India's confirmed cases have surpassed 7 million.Globally more than 1 million people _...Read More_

"AS THE NEW CORONAVIRUS spreads illness, death, and catastrophe around the world, virtually no economic sector has been spared from harm. Yet amid the mayhem from the global pandemic, one industry is not only surviving, it is profiting _...Read More_

"Schumacher's emphasis on what he called "intermediate technology" (neither basic nor large-scale) as the solution to many of the world's problems… "A crank", he said, "is a piece of simple technology that creates revolutions". Nice."

Bizarrely, emissions from global trade do not appear in any nation’s carbon accounting.…in 2007, Britain imported 15,000 tons of chocolate-covered waffles, while exporting 14,000 tons. In 2017, the US both imported and exported nearly 1.5 _...Read More_

'Ecologies of Power' by Pierre Belanger and Alexander Arroyo is a great book about this.

“People don’t know what’s happening to their trash,” said Andrew Spicer, who teaches corporate social responsibility at the University of South Carolina and sits on his state’s recycling advisory board. “They think they’re saving the world. _...Read More_

Notes on the STUFF GLUT: 'Given the volume of consumer choices now available, the retail machine has come to require a ghost - whether algorithm, influencer, or snazzy ad tech - to help a product follow [its consumer] around the web.'

The characteristic of the shift over the past half-century is that of a structural change that despite provoking a series of crises, has not been effectively addressed. The result has been a widespread increase in inequality, interlinked _...Read More_

Putin wants to make Russia's internet sovereign. What would it take to pull off this massive technical challenge? _...Read More_

Worth reading article. [#climatechange](/relevant/new/climatechange) [#rebellion](/relevant/new/rebellion) [#globalwarming](/relevant/new/globalwarming) #civildisobedience