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Technological development has reached a level that makes conventional market processes appear to be an inefficient means of allocating resources.

Berlin
Joined February 2019
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Once the body’s cooling threshold reaches 35 °C, it can barely release any more heat through sweating. Recent experiments suggest that this threshold may be even lower. What does a 3-degree rise in temperature mean for us? simple.economy.nu/en/blog/a-…
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There is no such thing as a “free market”. All markets are defined by laws and rules. The question is who are the laws and rules for? substack.com/app-link/post?p…
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"A majority of Americans dramatically underestimate the level of support amongst their peers, sometimes by a delta of 30%." 📊 Kevin Green of Rare explains how this gap fuels a spiral of silence on climate action at Climate Week NYC. Watch more on @WeDontHaveTime
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The electric transport revolution is a great chance to rethink how we move through our cities – and whether we even need a car at all. Cars, after all, often have only one occupant. You’re expending a lot of energy to transport yourself. By contrast, electric mopeds and bikes use a lot less energy to transport one or two people. They’re also a lot cheaper to buy and run than electric cars. If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually. In Australia, electric bikes are very rapidly going from a hobbyist pursuit to a serious mode of urban transport. Over 100,000 e-bikes were sold here last year. Of course, you’re unlikely to use electric mopeds or bikes to drive from Sydney to Melbourne. Their real value is in short-hop trips – the school run, the milk and bread run or even the commute – where they take roughly the same time or shorter than a car. theconversation.com/the-worl…
Clearly, raising interest rates at the same time as energy prices are rising is “playing with fire.” If the economy is really overstimulated and growing too quickly, this type of approach makes sense. But if the underlying problem is that diesel and jet fuel prices are high because of inadequate world production, what is really needed is higher oil prices, especially for the heavier crude oils that provide a disproportionate share of diesel and jet fuel. ⛽️ I expect that if such a change can be made, economies will need to gradually change in ways that are hard for us to understand now. The focus may need to be on essentials, including food and clothing. Governments may need to be smaller and provide fewer services. Communities may need to be smaller and more walkable. The total population may need to be lower.
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It's such a strange time to be alive. Understanding is incredibly limited. Apocalypse means revelation. Plastics = human extinction Pesticides = human extinction Forever chemicals = human extinction Climate change / sea level rise = human extinction Ecological collapse = human extinction The effects of all extinction events combined will be staggering.
Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN. cnn.it/3Twazj2
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Wildlife to be affected by this drought for years to come: UK govt. “Lack of rainfall, successive heatwaves & new temperature records strain water supplies. Scientists: this extreme weather was due to the climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels.” pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/…
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Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Ein Auslaufmodell Interventionsspiralen, Kipppunkte, ökonomisches Gesetz von Norbert Berthold (JMU, 2026) ... Der Fall Schweden zeigt den Aufstieg durch marktwirtschaftliche Kräfte, die Sklerose durch Interventionismus, den Kipppunkt in der Krise und die teilweise Umkehr durch Reformen. Er zeigt aber auch, dass sich der Interventionsstaat schleichend entwickelt, der Ausbruch der Krise sich hinausschieben lässt und die Umkehr zur Marktwirtschaft nicht von heute auf morgen stattfindet. Das ökonomische Gesetz braucht Hilfe durch eine konsequente Angebotspolitik. Und noch etwas lässt sich aus dem schwedischen Fall und dem anderer „Umkehrländer“, wie Dänemark, Großbritannien, Neuseeland, lernen: Erfolgreiche Reformen sind erst möglich, wenn korporatistische Vetopositionen reduziert werden, klare politische Verantwortung installiert und auf mehr Wettbewerb gesetzt wird. Korporatistische Lösungen, wie Konzertierte Aktionen, sind nicht die Lösung des Problems, sie sind das Problem. „Runde Tische“ neigen dazu, Lasten auf Dritte, meist künftige Generationen, zu verschieben, sich auf Klein-Klein-Kompromisse zu verständigen und den Reformstau zu verlängern. Gefragt sind politische Entscheidungen nicht endlose Verhandlungsrunden. ... wirtschaftlichefreiheit.de/w…
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Aristotle’s Politics has wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality theconversation.com/aristotl… via @studyACU 's #MatthewSharpe
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