Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
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“If green growth is expected to achieve not just any absolute decoupling, but one large enough to meet economic growth goals within planetary boundaries, then it must represent a break with preceding trends.” #GreenGrowth #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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SNAP Cuts Threaten to Cut Young Adults Off at the Knees
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The War No One Wanted
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Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition
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The Other Side of China’s Economic Miracle
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The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Alarming Control Tactics
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“DWP admitted in the paper that there was a risk that it had become ‘unintentionally desensitised’ to such failures.”
DWP deaths overshadow every other British scandal for decades, MPs are told - @johnpring.bsky.social
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Deep Inside the Chaotic Politics of the California Billionaire Tax
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“Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-&-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, & is, a political project with specific & evolving strategies aimed aimed at particular, &—it should be emphasised—violent aims.”
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Zohran Mamdani Gets It. Abigail Spanberger Does Not
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In Sudan, the forces unleashed by the remnants of Bashir's regime have not won. Even under siege, life continues. With photographs by Salih Basheer
Disabled people are being hurt, harmed and killed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at a scale that overshadows every other scandal in British society in recent decades, MPs have been t…
A series of lawsuits allege that women are being coerced into having abortions by friends, ex-partners, or others who are close to them. But the accused are rarely the real abusers in these stories.
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China has witnessed the greatest stretch of sustained growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions workers. A new book recounts the life of one...
The New York City mayor has spent the beginning of his term delivering on one promise after another. The Virginia governor, meanwhile, has been busy vetoing progressive legislation.
This study shows the global patterns of coupling and decoupling between economic growth and emissions in 1820-2022. Green growth has not been exclusive to the West nor is it recent. Recessions played ...
Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological…
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The pitched battle between billionaires and populist economists has Golden State residents’ heads spinning.
