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When we collectively feel entitled to hold the government accountable, that’s democracy. But when individuals do, that’s something else: institutional capture.
Who Speaks for the Trees?
theatlantic.com
This is what urbanist Alan Ehrenhalt calls “The Great Inversion,” a major shift where cities and suburbs have traded places over the last 30 to 40 years. As people marry later and employment becomes more temporal, young adults and affluent retirees are moving into the urban core, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
social.techcrunch.com
The gross world product was about $85 trillion in 2020 — so the sudden removal of hundreds of trillions of dollars from the budgets of the world is a serious thing. These are not businesses threatened with closure, but governments responsible for their citizens in ways that can’t go wrong without massive disruption and suffering, possibly to the point of complete breakdown. Failed states happen.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
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