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We might imagine all cities as not only a collection of buildings and people, but a geosocial formation, one whose separation from the earth underneath can’t be taken for granted.
Deep Time Sickness | NOEMA
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The chief irony of biological annihilation is this: we are both its cause and its solution. We so thoroughly dominate the earth that our conservation interventions, too, are necessarily heavy-handed.
Managers are therefore free to pursue economization within broadly defined limits. If their decisions require that large numbers of workers in a particular town lose their jobs—because the pencil factory is being moved to a place with lower labor costs, for instance—then that is a decision the manager can make without answering to the townspeople. For the market to function, therefore, decision-making power must be concentrated in relatively few hands.
How to Make a Pencil
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