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Wenn ich irgendjemanden fragen würde, ‘Wünschen Sie sich, dass sich die weltweiten Einkommen einander annähern?’, dann wäre die Antwort: Ja, natürlich, das wäre doch toll, … Aber es führt zu Unzufriedenheit, wenn es dann tatsächlich passiert. Milanović zur Elephantenkurve. #Mittelschicht #China
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#blackfriday, und alle bemängeln individuelle Laster und fehlende Initiativen. Dabei passiert viel, wie ich in meinem Buch zu #Elektroschrott gezeigt habe, von Deutschland bis Indien. Hightech-Recycling, Regulation, Kooperation. Aber die Produktion bleibt ungebremst. hightech-am-ende.de
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This is perhaps the greatest takeaway of the book, that the prospect of ‘stranded assets,’ or fossil fuel projects rendered unprofitable before the end of their expected economic lives, are the primary force holding the world back from beating #climatechange. A comprehensive review of Overshoot.
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"… make full use of our natural advantage", the official says. Geopolitics returns, as described by @nielswerber.bsky.social‬. I enjoyed this (now unlocked!) #NYTimes piece on #Malaysia, #chips, #datacenter industries, and how to benefit from #Trump. #Vietnam tries to do similar things. #tradewar‬
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The nomination didn’t last even a full Scaramucci. So we’re back in that kind of era again. Funny, truly funny, of course. But I will not follow all the small scandals as was common during the last time. What are they thinking. As someone once uttered, You Banbury cheese! #us #trump
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Consider yourself in a wildfire, casually enjoying the fire. Breathe. That’ll be a fine particle, aka PM 2.5 #airpollution of ~1000. Translated to the Air Quality Index, it’ll be an #AQI of ~2000. #Delhi recently had an AQI of over 1,700. It’s spiralling. 5 is healthy, 100 dangerous, 300 hazardous.
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20 years of #GoogleScholar, holy cow. It’s all nice and weird but what happens when they pull the plug of this very much neglected project? #google #tech Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
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Devaluation and society are closely entangled – my chapter contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society. This new volume is the result of our valuation studies group, but in a way the book also feels like a tribute to the late Hilmar Schäfer. #waste #sociology #sts