Limiting global warming to 1.5C or 2C would mean “rapid and deep” emissions reductions in “all sectors” of the global economy, says the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Climate Crisis
Michael Mann: On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial
But the D-word du jour is delay. And we’ve become all too familiar with the lexicon employed in its service: “adaptation,” “resilience,” “geoengineering” and “carbon capture.” These words offer the soothing promise of action, but […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: Germans to the Front
According to Hofstadter’s Law, obviously a descendent of Murphy’s Law, ‘everything takes longer than you think’. Last year the first to get acquainted with it in a big way was the Russian warlord, Putin, who […]
Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Uber Boss Makes Shocking Admission Over ‘Algorithmic Wage Discrimination’
‘Uber’s CEO admitted that the company changes its drivers pay based on their “behavioural patterns”, after years of denials of the controversial policy which has been called “algorithmic wage discrimination”.’ In Novara Media. Read the […]
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