I specialize in sustainable architecture. I’m inspired by Ian M., a geographer who “Designed With Nature” using sophisticated mapping, & you all know Rachel C.
“It’s not growth itself that matters– what matters is what we are producing, whether people have access to essential goods and services, and how income is distributed. And past a certain point, more GDP isn’t necessary for improving human welfare at all." https://t.co/wpKX2iZlcz
p156 “Most of our material use cannot be recycled. 44% of it is food and energy inputs, which become irreversibly degraded as we use them. 27% is net addition to stocks of buildings and infrastructure. Another big chunk is waste from mining.” https://t.co/wpKX2iZlcz
p146 “Even if we had a 100%-clean-energy system, what would we do with it? Exactly what we are doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, trawl more fish, mine more mountains, build more roads, expand industrial farming, and send more waste to landfill.” https://t.co/wpKX2iZlcz
Less is More, p91 “Kuznets created a metric called Gross National Product … But Kuznets was careful to emphasize that GDP is flawed. … GDP makes no distinction between $100 worth of tear gas and $100 worth of education.” https://t.co/wpKX2iZT27
Less is More pp26-7.
Pre-capitalism: C=commodity, M=money
C1 > M > C2.
Capitalism: ’=profit
M > C > M’ > M’’ > C’’ > M’’’…
“Looking at the formula above, it becomes clear that capitalism behaves a bit like a virus.” https://t.co/wpKX2jgW47
Less is More p73 Descartes dissected live animals to distinguish the body, nature and the animal from thinking man; the body became capital for exploitation of labor by the ruling class. Henry VIII executed 72,000 “vagabonds.” Capitalism was born. @RBReich https://t.co/wpKX2jgW47
Stop calling the fossil fuels that destroyed our gulf ecology and are destroying our ecology and our children's future "American Energy"! You are on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and should be fighting for us, not the fossil fuel empire that is destroying America.
President @JoeBiden's fear of angering his radical Green New Deal supporters is causing him to drain our oil reserves rather than unleash American energy. Increasing U.S. energy production would be a LONG-TERM solution for easing inflation & boosting our national security.
Less is More p48 “Capitalism rose on the back of organized violence, mass impoverishment, and the systematic destruction of self-sufficient subsistence economies. … it put an end to the progressive revolution that had ended serfdom.” @RBReich https://t.co/wpKX2jgW47
Why is it that Christians from the Bible Belt refuse to quote the words of Christ? He preached about loving your neighbor and even your enemy, helping the poor, welcoming all into the kingdom. Cindy Hyde Smith’s fruits are not visible in weekday tweets. She hates her enemies.
In the Supreme Court cases Merrill v Milligan & Merrill v Caster, last week, AL was so comfortable with overt racism they didn’t even feel they needed a coherent legal argument to justify their racial gerrymander. Justice Brown Jackson educated them. https://t.co/LCSa3W3u0q
35:25 “According to the Washington Post 291 out of 559 Rep. candidates for the house & senate & key statewide offices are big lie believers.” https://t.co/TRFpPR9zCi
24 years ago today Matthew Shepard lost his life to a senseless act of hate.
His tragic death triggered a national wake up call for the rights and safety of LGBTQ Americans, a battle we are still fighting today.
Matthew’s memory will live on.
I’m so glad AOC made this video.
By not bringing attention to and calling out the anti-Black racism in hispanic culture, she told us everything we need to know about her.
Everything most of us already knew.
#StopBlackAmericanHate
The reason democracy is under assault is that there is a sincerely held belief that democracy is by definition a process that takes power away from the more deserving race and distributes it to less deserving races. How do we counter that? https://t.co/MguRnFwWDY
If we taught critical race theory, we would teach that our state constitutions are racist with facially race-neutral language, and we’re waiting for a racist supreme court so we can be an overtly racist nation that acts with impunity. (That time is now.) But that would be “woke.”
In the wake of the 13th, 14th & 15th constitutional amendments, state constitutions were hastily rewritten with covertly racist but facially pseudo race-neutral language to effectively disenfranchise, segregate and incarcerate the hated freedmen. It’s not “woke” to teach that.