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How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
The things we built are in decline, and the jobs we created are being lost. The Good Internet is gone.
We subordinated our critical thinking to chase trends and feed content firehoses.
The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job | the New Republic
newrepublic.com
We can’t eliminate every environmental threat overnight, but we can weed out some of the worst offenders by imposing steep tariffs on poor-quality imports. We know we have to phase out using fossil fuels, but where do we start? Let’s start by banning petroleum imports from areas like the Amazon, the tar sands in Alberta and the swamps of southeastern Nigeria, one of the most [polluted](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-niger-delta-oil-pollution/?sref=B3uFyqJT) places in the world.
Opinion | Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard On the High Stakes of Low Quality - The New York Times
Yvon Chouinard
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