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There is no such thing as a “free market”. All markets are defined by laws and rules. The question is who are the laws and rules for? substack.com/app-link/post?p…
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"A majority of Americans dramatically underestimate the level of support amongst their peers, sometimes by a delta of 30%." 📊
Kevin Green of Rare explains how this gap fuels a spiral of silence on climate action at Climate Week NYC.
Watch more on @WeDontHaveTime
Climate Week NYC - Kevin Green, Rare
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A good piece from The Guardian about economic reality that politicians don't appear to want to explain to the public. They would rather gaslight them instead.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This shows why we need LOTS more wind, solar, storage and transmission in the UK - and quickly!
carbonbrief.org/analysis-win…
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The electric transport revolution is a great chance to rethink how we move through our cities – and whether we even need a car at all.
Cars, after all, often have only one occupant. You’re expending a lot of energy to transport yourself.
By contrast, electric mopeds and bikes use a lot less energy to transport one or two people. They’re also a lot cheaper to buy and run than electric cars.
If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually.
In Australia, electric bikes are very rapidly going from a hobbyist pursuit to a serious mode of urban transport. Over 100,000 e-bikes were sold here last year.
Of course, you’re unlikely to use electric mopeds or bikes to drive from Sydney to Melbourne. Their real value is in short-hop trips – the school run, the milk and bread run or even the commute – where they take roughly the same time or shorter than a car.
theconversation.com/the-worl…
Clearly, raising interest rates at the same time as energy prices are rising is “playing with fire.” If the economy is really overstimulated and growing too quickly, this type of approach makes sense. But if the underlying problem is that diesel and jet fuel prices are high because of inadequate world production, what is really needed is higher oil prices, especially for the heavier crude oils that provide a disproportionate share of diesel and jet fuel. ⛽️
I expect that if such a change can be made, economies will need to gradually change in ways that are hard for us to understand now. The focus may need to be on essentials, including food and clothing. Governments may need to be smaller and provide fewer services. Communities may need to be smaller and more walkable. The total population may need to be lower.
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It's such a strange time to be alive. Understanding is incredibly limited. Apocalypse means revelation.
Plastics = human extinction
Pesticides = human extinction
Forever chemicals = human extinction
Climate change / sea level rise = human extinction
Ecological collapse = human extinction
The effects of all extinction events combined will be staggering.
Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN. cnn.it/3Twazj2
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Wildlife to be affected by this drought for years to come: UK govt. “Lack of rainfall, successive heatwaves & new temperature records strain water supplies. Scientists: this extreme weather was due to the climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels.” pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/…
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Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ein Auslaufmodell
Interventionsspiralen, Kipppunkte, ökonomisches Gesetz
von Norbert Berthold (JMU, 2026)
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Der Fall Schweden zeigt den Aufstieg durch marktwirtschaftliche Kräfte, die Sklerose durch Interventionismus, den Kipppunkt in der Krise und die teilweise Umkehr durch Reformen. Er zeigt aber auch, dass sich der Interventionsstaat schleichend entwickelt, der Ausbruch der Krise sich hinausschieben lässt und die Umkehr zur Marktwirtschaft nicht von heute auf morgen stattfindet. Das ökonomische Gesetz braucht Hilfe durch eine konsequente Angebotspolitik. Und noch etwas lässt sich aus dem schwedischen Fall und dem anderer „Umkehrländer“, wie Dänemark, Großbritannien, Neuseeland, lernen: Erfolgreiche Reformen sind erst möglich, wenn korporatistische Vetopositionen reduziert werden, klare politische Verantwortung installiert und auf mehr Wettbewerb gesetzt wird. Korporatistische Lösungen, wie Konzertierte Aktionen, sind nicht die Lösung des Problems, sie sind das Problem. „Runde Tische“ neigen dazu, Lasten auf Dritte, meist künftige Generationen, zu verschieben, sich auf Klein-Klein-Kompromisse zu verständigen und den Reformstau zu verlängern. Gefragt sind politische Entscheidungen nicht endlose Verhandlungsrunden.
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wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/w…
Aristotle’s Politics has wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality theconversation.com/aristotl… via @studyACU 's #MatthewSharpe
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Even the climate change downplayers are saying there will be profound global impacts by 2027.
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It's not climate change. It's corporate greed.
The planet isn't dying, it's being killed. #StopEcocide
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The climate we grew up in is gone. Weather and temperature extremes are going to get worse. The future is hotter and unsettled. France is the main food producing region in Europe.
Replying to @SergeZaka
C’est une cata Serge. J’étais chez mes parents dans la Loire ce week-end. Regarde à quoi ressemblent les paysages 😩 J’en étais sans voix. Ce n’est pas la campagne dans laquelle j’ai grandi!
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"The most severe impacts will be when climate shocks intersect with weak health systems, limited access to health care, food insecurity, displacement & humanitarian crisis"
#ClimateEmergency = #PublicHealth emergency
phys.org/news/2026-09-super-…
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Due to water vapour feedback which keeps atmospheric and sea surface temperatures permanently elevated, every El Nino is an irreversible step-change into new temperatures and climates.
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th.
See that red line? That’s 2026.
Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record.
2026 is in a league of its own.
#elnino #elniño
We have two months left for this El Niño to continue to intensify. And it will.
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Great analysis from @ronbousso1
reuters.com/commentary/reute…
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⚠️ Convence a Lula para que firme la homologación del Territorio Kawahiva. Tras 27 años de lucha, estamos muy cerca de conseguir la protección legal de su territorio. 📧 Envía rápidamente el email de este link.svlint.org/kawahiva
svlint.org/Kawahivas_Compart…
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Die Heuchelei der Wirtschaftsverbände: Sonntags Deregulierung fordern, montags für neue Regulierung lobbyieren
"Am Sonntag klagen alle Wirtschaftsvertreter über die Bürokratie und fordern breite Entlastung. Am Montag finden sie aber garantiert zehn Regulierungen, die für ihre Branche essenziell sind und daher bleiben müssen – sowie zehn weitere, die sie gerne auch noch einführen würden. So füttert die Wirtschaft den gleichen Papiertiger, den sie sonst geisselt. Ganz nach dem Motto: Weniger Staat ja, aber nicht dort, wo man lukrative Pfründe herausholen kann."
schweizermonat.ch/die-heuche…
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Boycott plastic!
We have to stop buying it!
Replying to @pbrown4348
We literally ship our plastic trash to delveoping counties, so.....
and lie to people in "developed" countries about recycling it
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Cars Out, Weapons In At Volkswagen’s Osnabrück Factory. The first project would be with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel’s state-owned arms manufacturer. us.list-manage.com/nT9KwPlXn…
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Dear @FAIreland
Please...#StopTheGame before you end up on the WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY 🙏. Ireland has led the way before, and this time the apartheid and genocide is much worse.
Please everyone share - so the Football Association of Ireland can't ignore it.


































