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One of the most affecting myths of clock time is that we all experience time at the same steady pace. We don’t. “The future is already here,” the science-fiction author William Gibson famously said in 2003, “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” And framing the climate crisis as a ticking clock with only a certain amount of time “to avoid
... See moreJoe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
Nowadays, there are four things that are gonna decide if I have a good day. Did I sleep enough? Did I connect deeply with people I love? Did I get some time to myself? Did I make choices for my body that felt good—like, did I take a good walk, did I eat healthy, did I exercise? If I get those four things in place, usually my days are pretty good.
Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things
To put it simply, if we are going to let corporations be “persons” and afford them special privileges and protections due to that personhood, then it makes sense to make our natural resources legal persons as well.
Corporations depend on these natural resources, and we have done a poor job as humanity of protecting these natural resources from abuse
... See moreMatt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer • What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights?
But we can build the kind of world where they don’t have to suffer because of the vagaries of fate, where we decide as a society that people shouldn’t be defined by those things that the individual can’t control, that their parents can’t control, that nobody can control.
