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It has been argued that higher sickness and mortality rates from COVID-19 in individualistic cultures with less obligatory collectivism,[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-29) is another instance.
Tragedy of the Commons
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This is far more scathing than what Greta used to do at such esteemed gatherings. She used to scold. She used to plead. She used to cry. And though she was harsh to the leaders listening to her, her words still implied a kind of faith in them. But it would seem that Greta no longer believes in that theory of change. She has come to the place at which so many of us have arrived: the realization that no one is coming to save us but us, and whatever action we can leverage through our cooperation, organization, and solidarities.
Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, of which an experience of beauty is the constructed result.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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