Gates Foundation Is Rattled by Trump’s Threat to Its Mission
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Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
issue.” The spread of these protocols was, he said, a “continuation of the colonial, imperial arrogance of the enlightened white man with money and science, and noble and benevolent intentions, who will solve these problems.” The situation was no longer British colonizers helping themselves to your country. It was well-suited people with laptops of
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And in addition to throwing America’s government operations, trading system, and foreign relations into chaos, Trump is already causing chaos on a more granular, local level. He gave an order to open up two California dams, apparently based on the notion that this would make California a wetter place and decrease wildfire risk. Unfortunately, that’... See more
The chaos has arrived
Despite the fact that climate change is a pressing concern with material and immediate negative health effects, to put it mildly, it is not of interest to many of the people who are in control of where money and research attention are flowing. There is this idea that climate change can be easily solved, and we already know how to do it. So once tec... See more
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
“It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer,” Bill Gates has said.