Join 📚Jof’S Book Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
rather than seeing mitigation policy as posing separate dimensions of efficiency (e.g., how, and by how much, should emissions be reduced?) and equity (e.g., who should bear the costs of emissions reductions?), one can see the latter as offering a pathway to promote the former. This is because “lowering inequality will be good for the environment and decrease carbon dioxide levels in countries above a certain income threshold of GDP per capita” (Grunewald et al. 2017, 253). Accordingly, limiting luxury emissions and moving financial resources from very rich people to poor people through measures such as steeply progressive income taxes, wealth taxes, or financial transaction taxes may be seen as a climate change mitigation policy, not merely a policy concerning equitable redistribution.
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
Academic underperformance has a multitude of causes, from an individual student's troubles at home to the broader structures of an unjust standardized testing infrastructure. Yet __the rhetoric surrounding ADHD locates the student's brain as the main problem, reframing underperformance and misbehavior as biological dysfunctions (which is effectively a depoliticization of deviance), thus cutting off any critical inquires into socio-cultural conditions in and around schools.__ Psychopharmacological approaches do prove useful for raising academic achievement as measured by perforan outcome of such unquestioned value mances on standardized tests that it is viewed as an acceptable risk to have the brains (not to mention the self-understandings) of millions of children fundamentally alerted by the forced administration of psychotropic drugs.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Even judging by Brendan’s and Patrick’s accounts (and I could easily reference many others), I think we can conclude that __from these jobs, students learn at least five things: 1. how to operate under others’ direct supervision; 2. how to pretend to work even when nothing needs to done; 3. that one is not paid money to do things, however useful or important, that one actually enjoys; 4. that one is paid money to do things that are in no way useful or important and that one does not enjoy; and 5. that at least in jobs requiring interaction with the public, even when one is being paid to carry out tasks one does not enjoy, one also has to pretend to be enjoying it.__
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise