“We completely misunderstood National Socialism. We knew nothing of the actual power of the movement. We didn’t think these people were intelligent enough, and believed that intelligence was what mattered in politics. 1933 was the year of our great awakening.” Wilhelm Eschmann (Jahner, Vertigo)
We’ve privatised poverty - the story has become all about blame and stigma; there are few social structures to enable people to find strength or resist injustice. But then there’s folk like Kelly, Glyn and all the others at PFG. @jrf-uk.bsky.social@citizennetwork.bsky.socialyoutu.be/4rCMtTLXD04
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social earlier this evening arguing for the importance of public philosophy and urging us to seize the tools of production by making our own podcasts, or intervening in public debates like Anscombe.
Book launch for City of Equals UCL IAS 17th October 5.00pm Avner (on Zoom) and I will be in conversation with Dr Marta Wojciechowski (Department of Political Economy, King’s College) and Professor Peg Rawes (Architecture and Philosophy, The Bartlett, UCL) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l...
Join us for the launch of 'City of Equals' by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit
Impressive to see how Spain transformed its electricity system. Back in 2000, there was hardly any solar or wind and 36% came from burning coal. Today 50% comes from renewables, 21% comes from nuclear, and less than 2% from coal.
Here's episode 2 of The Basic Income Show! We discuss Sam Altman's basic income pilot results before moving on to watching and commenting on a completely ridiculous anti-UBI video and a short mini-documentary about the Denver Basic Income Pilot project. youtu.be/KJ85RrZSDU8?...
YouTube video by Scott Santens
📣 Join us in Sheffield to reimagine care, power, justice and sustainability for all our neighbourhoods ⏰ 1st - 3rd November: Fearless Cities Summit More info | free tickets: citizen-network.org/news/1st-3rd... We look forward to seeing you!
In 1984, 20% of US electricity was near-zero-carbon (nuclear and hydro). Forty years later, we're now at 40%. We have a LOT of work to do just to clean up the easiest economic sector to decarbonize, electricity. The other 75% of US climate pollution will be harder; it hasn't budged in my lifetime.
