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Let’s do good climate + industrial policy
Such tariffs on imports ensure polluting producers aren’t just pushed overseas. Ultimately, a global approach is needed. — Read on thetyee.ca/News/2021/07/23/Europe-Is-Planning-Border-Carbon-Tax/
Always surprises me how many folks are ok with child abuse
Ethics of helping a minor get vaccinated? – Covid vaccine antivax | Ask MetaFilter — Read on ask.metafilter.com/356159/Ethics-of-helping-a-minor-get-vaccinated
People don’t want to move to the burbs, they want adequate, affordable housing
Climate change focus moves to the suburbs as cities continue to sprawl — Read on www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6105357 Most people who move to the suburbs do it because it’s subsidized and incentivized at every level of government relative to housing + transport in a city. It’s not that hard to build 1200-1500 sq ft apartments or rowhomes […]
Who gets to breathe?
Today as I’m paging through reviews for $800 HEPA filters in an early smoke season during a pandemic, I’m remembering a sci-fi story where you had to buy clean air and poor people coughed and scrimped for air canisters and died. If we’d fixed ventilation and air purification instead of just shutting restaurants and gyms […]
“Pas du tout! I am a Bolshevik.”
It is hard to see how a figure so marvelously intemperate could ever be bridled to the satisfaction of the Anglo-American mainstream. Still, the intellectual historian Robert Zaretsky has made an impressive attempt to win over skeptics in his new book, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Somewhere between biography and philosophical […]
No capacity
CBC Lite | Quebec ERs ‘on the verge of a breakdown’ and need help, emergency doctor says — Read on www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6099487 We don’t have healthcare capacity for even small additional covid waves. We don’t even have healthcare capacity for non-covid issues right now.
The construction of gender
Some interesting thoughts on how the way we medicalize gender affects what it means to be trans today. — Read on octodon.social/web/statuses/106556971060369069