I dont understand why no one seems to think this is an inevitable good thing- can we really support indefinite growth?
It might be true that no one is prepared with a new global economic system that relies on sustainability rather than than unlimited growth, but that doesn’t mean you can put 100 dozen eggs in a 1 dozen carton. We cannot just keep doubling population forever, the world would probably be a lot better off with just 1/3 of the populations we have now.
Why aren’t we figuring out how to make that work rather than trying to reverse population contraction at all costs? Even if they “fix” that, it wont be for long when there is absolutely no space or resources left.
Plenty of people, in fact almost everyone who will read your comment are rooting for population decline.
When you say that our global economic system requires indefinite growth, you are not talking about global capitalism. You are talking about settled human communities. From the moment the first seed was put in the ground, we have been on a trajectory that requires more labor next year than the last to keep the wheels on the track. More technology to support more people to develop more technology to support more people.
We could get off this ride, but we’ve been on it for 10s of thousands of years. Assuming it is as simple as changing our mindset is folly. This isn’t changing the icing on the cake, it’s changing the stones under the house while trying not to disturb the cake.
They overthrew. You can't just take by force and demand recognition
Lmao ig the Bengalis, Cubans, and all the British colonies should've continued to be slaughtered and exploited by "their" governments instead of taking control by force. What a disgusting thing to say.
no fan of the US. Quite the contrary. But i still prefer them
is watching their government funding a genocide in real timewhat-the-hell
Cult != Race. If you want to be taken seriously outside your circle-jerk-bubble, phrase adequately.
This was just a comment out of politeness. Won't reply further because it's boring.
You can't just take by force and demand recognition.
Okay but that’s basically how it’s always been done. “I don’t recognize the American government because they did violence against the British colonial government.” “I don’t recognize the government of Germany because it’s the result of the violent overthrow of the 1933-1945 government.”
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, etc etc
Why is Australia being hit by them? I thought this was just an Australian thing... A few years ago Metformin - a diabetes drug with many generic brands was in low supply. Two years ago my birth control (the only norethisterone only pill in our market) was unavailable for 6 months out of the blue. Starting around September last year the medicated eye gel I need was unavailable, no other product in our market with those ingredients... it has only recently become available again last week. I bought 3 tubes.
To top all that off, late last year we find out that 50mg vyvanse - an adhd med my daughter and I are both on - is unavailable and won't be available til maybe the end of the January. Of course 50mg is the most common dose and our psychiatrist was away for the holidays, leading to a mad scramble for our GP to request emergency permission to prescribe and the psych to pause his holidays to write letters authorizing prescribing to dozens of GPs for his patients. We now have had to pay twice as much and drive to neighbouring towns and sometimes multiple pharmacies, to get 20mg and 30 mg.
In France, people were surprised because we have big historic pharma corporation, with tons of public subventions. However this shortage revealed that they make the packaging of the drugs now. The actual substances are made elsewere.
They also focus on R&D for new bankable drugs. Not the ones that are important - new ones that could make tons of money. I have a thin hope that the gouvernement will make new regulations to produce locally.
Answer from the article : "simple analysis can unmask the fraud. Like the fatty acids composition test, or the sterol composition, as well as the spectrophotometric constants"
Oh. OK. Easy. Next time at the grocery store I will check that.
What I find very surprising is the lack of house insulation requirements in many places in the US... Temperatures vary by about 70°c over here so our houses are well insulated for winter but it's also advantageous for hot summer days so you would believe in the warmer parts of the USA they would want to insulate their house so AC isn't wasted and it would also help for the few cold days they get every year... You just need a couple of space heaters just in case and you're good to keep a couple of rooms warm enough that it's not much of an issue when that happens...
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