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Archive for March 12th, 2020

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12/03/2020

Five Things You Should Know Now about the COVID-19 Pandemic

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(UN News)* — On Wednesday 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the status of the COVID-19 outbreak from epidemic to pandemic.

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More New Yorkers appear to be wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus.

Here are five important pieces of information on what this means for you and your community.

1) What’s the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

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12/03/2020

Stock Market Bubble No Basis for Shared Prosperity

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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram*

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 10 2020 (IPS)* – The US is currently still in a stock market bubble which, if history is any guide, is likely to end, perhaps soon due to Covid19. President Trump would, of course, like to sustain it to strengthen his November re-election prospects.

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Meanwhile, US business investment has declined for many years. As shares of GDP, corporate profits or even market capitalization, such investment has been in decline for at least four decades. Clearly, ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies have failed to decades-long trend.

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Although focused on the US, William Lazonick’s seminal 2014 Harvard Business Review article, Profits without Prosperity, and Lazonick and Shin’s new book, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the US Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored offer invaluable insights into investment trends with implications for much of the world.

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12/03/2020

‘2020 Will Be Pivotal for Climate Action If the World Is to Control Ever Worsening Impacts of Climate Change Before It Is Too Late’ – State of the Climate Report

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11 March 2020 (WMO)* —  The year 2020 will be pivotal for climate action if the world is to control ever worsening impacts and indicators of climate change before it is too late, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as he launched WMO’s Statement on the State of the Global Climate.
Mauna Loa CO2 concentrations

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12/03/2020

Linked Dangers

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By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Contrasting Rates of Change

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John Scales Avery

Cultural evolution depends on the non-genetic storage, transmission, diffusion and utilization of information.

The development of human speech, the invention of writing, the development of paper and printing, and finally, in modern times, computers and the Internet: all these have been crucial steps in society’s explosive accumulation of information and knowledge.

Human cultural evolution proceeds at a constantly-accelerating speed, so great in fact that it threatens to shake society to pieces.

The strong contrast between the slow rate of genetic change and the lightning-like, constantly accelerating rate of cultural change means that we face the serious problems of today with an emotional nature that has changed little since our ancestors lived in small tribes, competing for territory on the grasslands of Africa.

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12/03/2020

Five Women Activists Tell Us What Climate Justice Means to Them

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5 March 2020 (Amnesty International)* — Climate change is a challenge that burdens us all, but not equally. Women and girls are among those affected disproportionately, especially those belonging to marginalized and discriminated communities in the Global South. And yet their voices are rarely heard in decision making forums.

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We want to change the climate of gender inequality.

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