"Single-family zoning laws lead to sprawl, segregation and expensive real estate. They’ve also seemed untouchable — until now."

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/single-family-zoning-minneapolis-massachusetts/

#MadeInChina - Issues 1-4 from 2018

Electricity map: Mapping the climate impact of electricity
Article, Comments

"Among the key findings are that, across most demographic groups - but especially for young workers without a college degree - the incidence of lousy jobs has steadily and sharply risen for male workers since 1979, and for female workers since the late 1990s. [...]
There has been an astonishing decline in the number
of decent jobs generated per dollar of GDP since the 1980s, particularly for young workers without a college degree, but it also appears for those with at least a college degree. As should be expected, workers - both young and prime-age, male and female - appear to have responded to this four-decade collapse in job quality by dropping out of the labor force, at least since the late 1990s."

"Beyond outsourcing, employers make use of a myriad of methods to reduce labor costs. As the labor journalist Steven Greenhouse (2019) has put it: “As workers’ power has waned, many corporations have adopted practices that were far rarer — if not unheard-of — decades ago: hiring hordes of unpaid interns, expecting workers to toil 60 or 70 hours a week, prohibiting employees from suing and instead forcing them into arbitration (which usually favors employers), and hamstringing employees’ mobility by making them sign noncompete clauses.”"

https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/from-decent-to-lousy-jobs-new-evidence-on-the-decline-in-american-job-quality-1979-2017/

This is an incredibly interesting article, and I strongly recommend y'all to read it

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/the-wealth-of-nations-2/

"The authors find that the average carbon footprint in the top 1% of emitters was more than 75-times higher than in the bottom 50%.

“The inequality is just insane,” the lead author of the study tells Carbon Brief. “If we want to reduce our carbon emissions, we really need to do something about the consumption patterns of the super-rich.”

A scientist not involved in the research says that “we often hear that actions taken in Europe or the US are meaningless when compared to the industrial emissions of China, or the effects of rapid population growth in Africa. This paper exposes these claims as wilfully ignorant, at best”."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/eradicating-extreme-poverty-would-raise-global-emissions-by-less-than-1

Wolf claims that this war is a battle between the forces of ‘democracy’ (as represented by NATO) and the forces of ‘autocracy’ (as represented by Russia and China). This is nonsense – where does NATO ally Saudi Arabia, or the military dictatorship in Egypt, or the autocracy of NATO member Turkey, fit into this categorisation? Instead, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has exposed the increasing contradictions in the world capitalist economy between the imperialist powers on the one hand and those countries which try to resist the policies and will of imperialism.

IMF chief Georgieva pronounced that “We live in a more shock-prone world.” Yes, the shocks have been coming thick and fast in the 21st century. Georgieva continued: “And we need the strength of the collective to deal with shocks to come.” Indeed! But it is not the collective will of the capitalist powers that can deal with these shocks: they have failed over climate change; over preventing and stopping the COVID pandemic; and over ending poverty and keeping world peace. Instead, all will depend on the collective will of organised working people

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/03/20/ukraine-russia-like-an-earthquake/