The world that capitalism and conservatives have created/destroyed:
"almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children, due to the environmental crises afflicting the world."
The world that capitalism and conservatives have created/destroyed:
"almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children, due to the environmental crises afflicting the world."
Pretty tough to boycott oligopoly.
"Home Depot’s Billionaire Founder Says He’ll Fund Trump... Even If He’s Convicted"
"Cancel Home Depot Into Bankruptcy. Gone."
Israel is a rogue state and needs the apartheid South Africa treatment ASAP.
"Ministries and offices within the Israeli government are behind all the largest and most contentious of the projects, sometimes in association with rightwing nationalist groups with a history of trying to evict Palestinians from their homes in parts of the city.
"The rapid approval or construction of settlements that are illegal under international law"
@sleepfreeparent @onepict @cstross @alex
British meritocracy in action:
"0.3% of the British population owns 66% of the country, and these 160,000 families who own two-thirds of Great Britain largely descend from the army of William the Conqueror — the first Norman King of England who first conquered the country in 1066."
This is a common trope among executives and it is a lie. Corporations are autocracies, as these actions show: speak against the corporation or its leaders and you’re out. Corporations are fundamentally anti-democratic inside and out.
“One of the privileges of working in a company which represents democratic values”
@czarbucks @StillIRise1963 @drjudystone
Great to see this in a major business magazine.
"Vulnerable patients are rebuffed when they want other people in a waiting area to mask—being told, “We can’t tell other people to mask,” yet if there were a case of measles, they could do so. Similarly, in an oncology or rheumatology office with many immunocompromised patients, the staff’s “right” to go unmasked trumps the patient right to a safe environment."
Great article. I did some research into this myself a few years ago and discovered that some Boards of Directors seek out narcissists as CEOs because they have a grand vision and supreme confidence. It always ends badly.
Musk is a narcissist, meaning someone who didn't fully develop as a human. Narcissists have an emotional maturity level somewhere between toddler and teenager. He cannot be any different and he cannot 'get better.' He does not and never will have a conscience or empathy or anything except a huge ego.
“Passing through the 1.5C world is a significant milestone because it shows that the story being told by the United Nations, with the acquiescence of its scientific advisory body, the IPCC, is a load of bullshit,” Hansen said.
“We are not moving into a 1.5C world, we are briefly passing through it in 2024. We will pass through the 2C (3.6F) world in the 2030s unless we take purposeful actions to affect the planet’s energy balance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/08/global-temperature-over-1-5-c-climate-change
Capitalism rewards psychopaths:
"Many widely celebrated character traits in CEOs, such as risk-taking and courage, often coexist with psychopathic tendencies, according to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author and chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup. A professor of business psychology at Columbia University and associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, Chamorro-Premuzic, wrote the book, “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?”
This is genocide. Cut Israel off now. I don't want to be complicit.
"the world faces the prospect of almost a quarter of Gaza’s 2 million population - close to half- a million human beings - dying within a year. These would be largely deaths from preventable health causes and the collapse of the medical system. It’s a crude estimate, but one that is data-driven, using the terrifyingly real numbers of deaths in previous and comparable conflicts."
Actually competent economist JK Galbraith: "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
"The darned global economy kept chugging along, with month after month and quarter after quarter of continuous growth. Yet at the same time, global economic forecasters and financial pundits kept peddling their forecasts of doom and gloom, almost seeming to will for it to happen - and then seemed apoplectic and angry when it never transpired!"
No kidding. But when I suggest their 6-week-and-counting cold might be because COVID wiped out their immune system…nobody wants to hear it. Back to normal, proles!
Some smart people are making very unwise choices. I had no idea how many people actually are sheeple - it’s most of us.
"I have met multiple people who "don't know anyone with long COVID" that are suffering from post-COVID-like symptoms, following a COVID infection.”
So the company that engaged in price-fixing for years has been caught selling underweight packages of food? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. I'm sure they'll get a small fine that, as an oligopoly, they will simply pass along.
"Some Ontario shoppers have uncovered packages of Cheerios and a Loblaws brand of potato chips that weighed far less than what was printed on the package."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cheerios-cereal-loblaw-1.7044272
Nowhere does it say everyone will be verified, and nowhere does the new process discourage anyone from talking to strangers.
Narcissists as leaders are always bad news. As @ruthbenghiat says, strongman leaders are at their worst when their country needs them the most.
“[Netanyahu] has shrunk. He’s destroyed emotionally, that’s for sure. I mean, something terrible happened to him. Bibi has been working all his life on the false pretense that he is Mr. Security. He’s Mr. Bullshit,” he said. “Every minute he is prime minister he is a danger to Israel."
This is excellent news!
"The world’s leading GP and health bodies, representing more than three million health professionals worldwide, will deliver an open letter on Saturday calling for urgent action against climate change to protect the health of communities.
“We the family doctors, doctors and health professionals of the world call on world leaders to take urgent action to safeguard the health of global populations from the climate crisis"
@milkman76 @Mary625 @msquebanh
Sadly, this is true:
"we have been looking for a place to move for a few years now, and we were seriously considering Canada. Then we started paying more attention to the politics and national news up there, and saw the creeping trumpism/fascism problem showing that it had roots there, too"
Our next door neighbour recently hosted a man who has been traveliing around lecturing about the World Economic Forum's plan for 'lockable cities.' They're here, too.
Genius:
"I’m sorry. I didn’t catch your name," Whitebeard, the name of Anderson's tool, told a scammer who was posing as a Bank of America called, according to the WSJ. "What’s your name, buddy?"
Looping in @jimcarroll , who is, a, uh, futurist.
We need to move fast on climate and we’re still going in the wrong direction. We cannot get there without social justice and equality - all eco and justice groups need to pin forces. I blog occasionally about how narcissists and other sociopaths have most of the power and are literally driving us of the climate cliff: www.briangordon.ca.
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