- Watch this critique of “dumb excuses” (e.g., the US is big) for badly designed cities. (Cities are for people, not cars, which should stay outside cities.)
- Dictators are a lot less effective than people hope. Read more.
- Read: Stanford’s president resigned due to “unprofessional research” (making things up), and he’s not the only one.
- Read how rising temperatures combine with inflation and food insecurity (India has banned the export of commodity rice; Russia is again blocking Ukrainian grain exports) to foment conflict and violence — just as I discussed in my article on post-water political economy.
- Read: Goodreads reviews are spoiled by non-readers in partisan fights.
- Read: Academics say that Facebook cannot be blamed for echo-chamber polarization… Since they could not monitor other influences, I think they are missing the big picture on polarization: Tribalistic othering.
- Read: Credit rating firms are adding climate chaos risk into the $133 Trillion debt market.
- Listen to David McWilliams describe his childhood friendship with Sinead O’Conner: “She was an activist, not an artist.”
- Read: Antartica’s sea ice is leaving faster than ever, but the journalist is surprised? WTF?
- Think: UNESCO plans to add Venice to its “UNESCO sites under threat” list, which is growing as climate chaos develops.
H/T to RB