Cover of a 2015 book glorifying the privatization of the Internet via "a unique and vibrant interplay between government and private industry." Nothing dollarable is safe.by Thomas NeuburgerThe love of money is a sickness with these people.—Attributed to an Indian chief as he watched the Europeans move west.Nothing dollarable is safe.—John Muir, 1908Buried
Candida auris fungus (source)by Thomas NeuburgerNormally humans are not much troubled by fungal infections (as opposed to bacterial and viral diseases, which are far more common).
On Saturday Paul Krugman wrote in his NY Times column that this week he will be “participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on ‘excessive wealth disorder’— the problems and dangers created by extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top.” Notes On Excessive Wealth Disorder— How Not To Repeat The Mistakes Of 2011 deals not so much with t
Atmospheric CO2 levels have now reached 415 ppm. The last time humans experienced levels this high was... never. Human didn't exist.#climatecrisis #climatechange pic.twitter.com/xtRSF2ScGC— Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) May 13, 2019
Economic growth and global warming, Figure 1 from a paper studying "Global nonlinear effect of temperature on economic production" (link below). "Non-linear" in this case means "at what warming point do economies tend to 'fall off a cliff'"? It's not the same point for all economies, but the non-linearity is obvious. (For conversion in charts a, b, and c, 20°C = 68°F, and 30°C = 86°F.
The sons and daughters of the uber-richby Gaius PubliusCapitalism is an economic system that encourages people to act from the most pathological individual motives and promises the best social outcome. As Noam Chomsky said, our current ideology is producing a nation, a world, of psychopaths. From an interview with Rob Kall:
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