“Simply telling people to reduce meat consumption in the name of climate and personal health won’t work.” A particularly obvious subtitle. Yet, a very thoughtful consideration of what might work instead. (New Republic)
“If, as many are suggesting, our species’ future now hinges on our capacity to create something different (say, a system in which wealth cannot be freely transformed into power, or where some people are not told their needs are unimportant, or that their lives have no intrinsic worth), then what ultimately matters is whether we can rediscover the freedoms that make us human in the first place.” - Excerpt from David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new book, The Dawn of Everything.
Prison Architecture - need it be so brutal? (Jacobin)
‘Realistically, this is also something that’s always been one of the fabled “jobs Americans won’t do” with a labor force that’s majority foreign-born.’ - From Matthew Yglesias’s recent piece on immigration and the supply-side. A thoughtful demonstration of how externalities reverberate down the supply chain, through your wallet, and even onto your plate. To recycle the old John Muir quote: “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Centering animals and the planet when arguing against factory farming is personally important to me. But centering humans who face unsafe working conditions on the supply side and rising prices on the demand side is probably much more helpful on the margin when trying to nudge folks away from meat or towards pro-immigration stances. For more on meatpacking, Future Perfect just released another video.
What’s your favorite Dad Thriller? Mine is Silence of the Lambs.
“To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?”
― Ivan Klima, from Love and Garbage
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