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Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Economists call it a tragedy of the commons: People insist on their freedom to denude their “private property” in any way they wish, to horde the wealth they pull from the land or sea, and while the party’s going strong, no one much cares what the repercussions may be.
Stephen Markley • Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face; and in the absence of such a disaster, the media rarely covered efforts to shift America off fossil fuels or pass climate legislation, since actually educating the public on long-term energy policy would be boring a
... See moreBarack Obama • A Promised Land
If Flagler and Jefferson Browne had been wrong in predicting that “the products of the West Indies and Caribbean sea will be ferried across from Cuba and taken by the railroad for distribution to all parts of the U.S.,” and that “with the completion of the Nicaraguan Canal, Key West would be a port of call for no small part of the shipping of the w
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
insecure affluence or a politics of anger.