It is great to think about technological and scientific solutions to the social, political and environmental polycrisis that we are in, but in the end we need to attack the problem on its root - the capital [3/3]
Only a few decades later we are seeing the system being completely taken over by the reactionary and racist extreme right, which is now flourishing in the vacuum created by the social democratic, anti-socialist project [2/3]
My takeaway from yesterday's brilliant talk by Kohei Sato at Tiedekulma: the post-WW2 social democratic consensus is a failed one since its conception. It was created to appease the demands of the working class and the radical left with the illusion that capital and social justice can co-exist [1/3]
The EU's push towards a green hydrogen economy is a new form of energy imperialism, exploiting resources from the Global South for its own benefits.
A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritizes European energy needs over local sovereignty
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Eight years later, I revisit the tree of life. âFuture trees may need to distinguish not only between cultured and uncultured lineages, but between extant and extinctâ rdcu.be/dPNpB
Nature Microbiology - The tree of life is a galvanizing image, anchoring biological diversity within a common framework. From a new view in 2016, the tree has continued to grow, and with it, our...
(especially in the context of fireworks celebrating the 4th of July)