The same clean air policies that can reduce fossil fuel emissions and help rein in climate change can also add up to 5 years onto people’s lives in the most polluted regions, while globally adding more than 2 years onto lives on average.
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Economics
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan: Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism
Over the past several years, a new narrative about global poverty has become entrenched in mainstream discourse. It holds that extreme poverty—a condition of absolute deprivation associated with severe calorie and nutrient deficiency and an […]
EU politics
El Nacional Cat: Spain’s Supreme Court opposes pardons for the pro-independence leaders
The court that heard the Catalan independence trial in 2019 is opposed to granting any form of pardon – total or partial – to the 12 pro-independence leaders convicted of sedition, misuse of public funds and disobedience, […]
Finance
Larry Elliot: Is the Bank of England losing its way?
From The Guardian Central bank infallibility was always something of a myth. Much of the decline in inflation in the 1990s and early 2000s was due to globalisation rather than the brilliance of central bankers. […]
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