The extreme heat and drought that has been roasting a vast swath of southern China for at least 70 straight days has no parallel in modern record-keeping in China, or elsewhere around the world for that matter.
Climate Crisis
Politico – EU eyes funding foreign LNG projects to lower prices, draft plan reveals
‘The European Union is considering backing investments in overseas fossil fuel infrastructure and shifting to long-term contracts to cut the high energy prices damaging European industries, according to a leaked proposal seen by POLITICO.’ Read […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik: “Globalization Has Contributed to Tearing Societies Apart”
In an interview with ProMarket, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explained where globalization went wrong, how trade agreements serve rent-seeking by politically well-connected firms, and why the only solution to the rise of political populism is […]
Climate Crisis
Simon Wren-Lewis: How BBC balance and bad think tanks discourage evidence based policy
The United Kingdom is waking up to a serious problem: Not only are their media hopelessly biased in its support of reactionary politics, but they are using think tanks that are being paid by the […]
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