Gasoline taxes reduce harmful emissions, but can be a burden for poor families. @KnittelMIT of @MITSloan and @bardwnb say there may be better options. Featured in today’s #ChartOfTheWeek https://t.co/zdp9IkwYFb https://t.co/L9LhwWcHS1 https://twitter.com/AEAjournals/status/1080472850174300160
Mosler lays down tablets on the economy, stupid https://t.co/3WV8GFVvj2 via @smh https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1080722203212161024
In 2018, Alaska's Bering Sea was all out of whack - https://www.popsci.com/alaska-bering-sea-climate-change?src=SOC&dom=tw
We made this film four years ago to explain what will happen in markets. The structural bear market and collapse in liquidity we now see were always going to happen. -- When The Herd Turns https://t.co/d20Zih7ZZa -- QE buys time but doesn't fix structural problems. https://twitter.com/Renegade_Inc/status/1079310551975673857
This Is, Indeed, the Statistic of 2018: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Is Not Recycled https://t.co/yy7nuXqOBG. 1/2 Nice to see my article on the role of energy in production getting some extra-academic coverage ... https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1075856872291385350
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. - https://standardebooks.org/
Glaciers in Western Canada retreating at unprecedented pace because of climate change - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-glaciers-in-western-canada-retreating-at-unprecedented-pace-because-of/
Why do glaciers matter?
http://extremeicesurvey.org/why-do-glaciers-matter/
This holiday season, the greatest gift consumers can give their children is the option not to buy any crap at all - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/26/pollution-plastic-waste-environment-china?CMP=share_btn_tw
Arctic's 2nd-Warmest Year Puts Wildlife, Coastal Communities Under Pressure | InsideClimate News - https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11122018/2018-arctic-report-card-climate-change-sea-ice-alaska-ecosystem-caribou-fish-global-warming?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Japan whale hunting: Commercial whaling to restart in July - BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46682976
Ecocide as Creative Destruction -Climate change explains less than 10% of the losses. The point isn’t to downplay climate change, but to express the breadth of the environmental crisis that the world now faces - https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/21/ecocide-as-creative-destruction/
Building blocks of ocean food web in rapid decline as plankton productivity plunges - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ocean-phytoplankton-zooplankton-food-web-1.4927884
Somalia's President Mohammed Farmajo Gives up the Country's Fishing Rights to China - https://www.africanexponent.com/post/9566-mohammed-farmajo-gave-up-the-countrys-fishing-rights-to-china
Recent Discovery of Crack in Antarctic Ice Sheet Raises Fears of Six to Nine Meter Sea Level Rise - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/discovery-recent-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-raises-fears-new-global-flood
90.5% of plastic waste has never been recycled - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46602969
A Killing Season: Monsanto’s new herbicide was supposed to save U.S. farmers from financial ruin. Instead, it upended the agriculture industry, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a struggle for survival. - https://newrepublic.com/article/152304/murder-monsanto-chemical-herbicide-arkansas
Arctic permafrost might contain 'sleeping giant' of world's carbon emissions - https://m.phys.org/news/2018-12-arctic-permafrost-giant-world-carbon.html
Global warming likely to reduce crop production by over 15% in 2020; govt report warns of highest losses in UP, Rajasthan, Bengal - https://www.firstpost.com/india/global-warming-likely-to-reduce-crop-production-by-over-15-in-2020-govt-report-warns-of-highest-losses-in-up-rajasthan-bengal-5748041.html
#Cuba achieves full electrification in 2018, an important step for economic & social development https://t.co/ofhLVxI7Ee https://t.co/UNFjXRjBC7 https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1074117719967129600
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