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The Habituation of Horror

September 11, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Ed Yong writes in the Atlantic about America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral and ends with this: 9. The Habituation of Horror The U.S. might stop treating the pandemic as the emergency that it is. Daily tragedy might become ambient noise. The desire for normality might render the unthinkable normal. Like poverty and racism, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: changing climate, COVID-19, extinctions, False Dichotomies, Magical Thinking, mass incarceration, Normality, police brutality, poverty, racism, school shootings, sexual harassment

Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19

June 3, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Guardian today, June 3, 2020, is an essay on the remarks from Jane Goodall about farming practices and food habits. “If we do not do things differently, we are finished,” she said. “We can’t go on very much longer like this.” She called for people to be lifted out of poverty, pointing to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Future of Work, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Compassion in World Farming, Coronavirus, COVID-19, exotic pets, factory farming, farming, food, Jane Goodall, Janusz Wojciechowski, poverty, Stella Kyriakides, tourism, traditional medicine

Utopian thinking: the easy way to eradicate poverty

March 6, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Keeping people poor is a political choice we can no longer afford, with so much human potential wasted. We need a universal basic income By Rutger Bregman the Guardian, March 6, 2017.

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: anti-poverty, money, money management, poverty, poverty line, Rich, scarcity mentality, UBI, universal basic income, Utopia

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