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My people were right, and I was wrong, in this: We cannot come to you. You will not let us. You do not believe in change, in chance, in evolution. You would destroy us rather than admit our reality, rather than admit that there is hope! We cannot come to you. We can only wait for you to come to us.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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
As Bauer predicted early on, housing programs targeting only the poor would lack the political support necessary to thrive. Only an integrated program, one that welcomed the majority like the Gemeindebau of Vienna, would be sustainable.
Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia
nytimes.com
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