collapse of the old society

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”

“We have no options here, where should we go? Who’s going to give us the protection? We have to do that again.”

Countries locking down their borders and increasing the peril of seeking asylum isn't reducing the number of refugees, its just getting them killed.

Climate change and fascists will surely make this worse.

The team fears that the ubiquity of plastic products means avoiding BPA is a near-impossible task.

It’s not every day that the Arctic Circle runs hotter than Miami, Florida.

“The entire funding model for Olympic sport is broken. The IOC generates now over US$1.7 billion per year and they refuse to pay athletes who attend the Olympics,”

The model for high level sports is entirely extractive, the IOC gets billions and the athletes risk serious injury for nothing.

When white men in England are dragging Asian men out of cars with shouts of “kill them”, and when white gangs are setting fire to hotels housing families from various countries across the Global South, they are rehearsing the actions they would take during the thing they fantasise about: genocide. When white men attack mosques, they are rehearsing a cultural genocide.

“That feeling when institutions break down, I think, played a role in contributing to the major surge of gun sales and the rise in violence. When you feel like no one is in charge, that’s a recipe for violence to emerge.”