This is a staggering chart. Life expectancy is now declining across major Western states. In the US, life expectancy is lower than it was in Japan in the 1980s. pic.twitter.com/vDs5DeDipq
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) July 31, 2019
We have done fucked up.
And just wait till you see what this chart looks like when climate change really hits.
It’s so odd that all the centrists and “progressives” come out of the damn woodwork to ask, “Where’s the money?” and “How will you pay for it?” when talk of health care for all or free college is mentioned, but never make a peep about highway construction or military spending.
Here’s a clue: with the amount we waste on those two alone, we could fund health care for all and free college with hundreds of billions left over.
The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic.
The only places in the world that open borders can actually work is where hardly anyone wants to live. That comports with the available evidence. Also notice how social services are deliberately curtailed as that’s all that open borders can really support.
But for some, belief is all that matters, all that is.
But this doesn’t matter to Rackete, she’s an idealist and for true idealists there are no trade-offs, no negative externalities, no unforeseen consequences…there is simply the ideal and anything that furthers that is good and anything that doesn’t is bad.
Never mind that it’s impossible for hundreds of millions of anyone to move to Europe, and for Europe to survive that onslaught. Survival doesn’t matter to these idealists because as long as you are doing the right thing, providence will provide. And of course that will work out about as well as it ever has in history.
every time some tech bro tries to say we don't need humanities education they always, inevitably, end up proving exactly why we need more humanities education
— Take your stars, and give me my scars (@venatrixlunaris) July 31, 2019
True. And every time some STEM type says that philosophy is worthless and should not be studied nor taught, they inevitably spend the next half hour expounding on some weirdo, thoroughly-discredited epistemological ideas that they would not even consider if they’d spent any time studying philosophy.