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#Dubai is where feudal capitalism thrives: built on oil and gas capital, maintained by monopolists and clerks, growing through construction and real estate investment by lazy rentiers. Then there are the expats and tourists who believe in upgrading through affiliation, many embracing fitness and plastic surgery. But you cannot climb into the ranks of the kings. Everyone speeds up though, driving up the energy demand in the name of hope. More is never enough.
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Up next, responsible yachting. #COP28 Green Zone in a nutshell. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Perhaps due to widespread concerns around the issue of women aging out of factory work, Samsung itself offers its workers training courses that could help them become professional makeup artists, hairdressers, and manicurists. A splendid text by Rest of the World’s Lam Le, who is an inspiring journalist in various ways. This text shows how factories spawn a peculiar environment. New IT realities. restofworld.org/2023/sams… #Samsung #IT #Hanoi #Vietnam #beauty #journalism #globalvaluechains #sts
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Hi folks, I’m onto something. The Sheikh #capitalism of drilling 4,000m deep to tickle dinosaur remains and pump them into 700m high concrete and glass structures and Manchester City F.C. is perhaps not the most sustainable. But more studies are required. Follow my substack. #Dubai #COP28
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#Dubai is as an offensively clean city. Not only for #COP28. It’s officials are putting matters into place. Tilting the perspective with a few shots of infrastructures doing the heavy lifting. The threatening margins?, as Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson would have put it. #wastestudies #sts
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Arrived in UAE. Is anyone in concrete town #Dubai for #COP28? Keen on talking #sts, semiconductors, data centres, e-waste.
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100 min. delay, I’m in the Deutsche Bahn game, again. Obsolescence instead of transformation, as I’ve phrased it. There will be no green transformation of mobility in Germany if there’s no recognition of the complexities of obsolescence. Maintenance is a daily task to attend to and invest in. Or not. 🤷🏻‍♂️ dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ub… #db #mobilität #bahn #train #infrastructure #ecology
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Thinking like a waste scholar

Waste is often lingering in the back of my mind, although the theme might not always take centre stage in every research project.

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