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How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.
Directly across the street, I can see a collection of tarps and poles (along with one of my own garbage cans) that were used to construct a makeshift home on the sidewalk. Beside that edifice stands a wooden cross decorated with a string of white Christmas lights and a red ribbon a memorial to the woman who built that structure and died inside it earlier this week. We don’t know and probably never will what killed her: the pandemic raging across California? A heart attack? An overdose of heroin or fentanyl?
In India, the rich cause seven times more emissions than the poor
Pro-poor development measures will not hurt the environment as much as policies to make the wealthy richer, says a new study. Representational image. | Roberto Schmidt / AFP
The top 20% of high-expenditure households in India are responsible for seven times the emissions traceable to the poor who spend less than $1.9 (Rs 140) a day, says a recent
study by the Japan-based
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. The mean carbon footprint of every Indian was estimated at 0.56 tonne per year – 0.19 tonne per capita among the poor and 1.32 tonne among the rich.
The Rubble of Empire
By Rebecca Gordon
January 19, 2021
Information Clearing House - How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.
Directly across the street, I can see a collection of tarps and poles (along with one of my own garbage cans) that were used to construct a makeshift home on the sidewalk. Beside that edifice stands a wooden cross decorated with a string of white Christmas lights and a red ribbon a memorial to the woman who built that structure and died inside it earlier this week.
No matter how many vaccines are rush-produced by large for-profit corporations with a long record of malpractice, vaccines will not reverse severe economic deterioration because the economic collapse, nationally and internationally, was not caused by any virus.1 The economic depression that is unfolding was a long time in the making and was accelerated and intensified […]
Oregon missing middle housing law disrupts new subdivisons January 16 2021
The Wilsonville Planning Commission considers how dramatically to alter the code to allow for higher-density housing
The Wilsonville Planning Commission recently was asked one of the most vexing and consequential questions the city faces regarding the implementation of recent housing legislation designed to foster more middle housing: What should be done about Frog Pond West?
The residential neighborhood along Boeckman Road and next to Advance Road was designed to almost exclusively include single-family homes, and that decision was based on animated community preference for less-dense housing. So far, between 75 and 100 homes have been built in the neighborhood with around 500 still to go, according to city Planning Manager Daniel Pauly.