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Now, “the market” is a name for a simplistic algorithm to create profit. The last 40 years demonstrate that the consequences of using it as the exclusive method for making decisions include gross inequality among humans and the wrecking of the health of the biosphere.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and, internationally, for many millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
TransAction has bold goals, but it is a self-contradicting plan. In addition to BRT, it allocates up to $29 billion for over 1,000 new lane-miles of highways that will draw people away from transit.
Northern Virginia’s Transportation Authority Proposes a Region-Wide Rapid Transit Network
draft plan
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