A collection of some of the best links from around the web, manually curated.
«To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon.»
«Ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far. To do something about it, we don’t have to remake our planet’s entire energy system.» How the plastic crisis came to be, how massive it is – and how we can fix it. Comes with a cover you won’t forget quickly.
This was long overdue: a comprehensive FAQ on what you should consider if you want to eat healthy (it’s funny, too: «Do I need to drink milk at all? – Only if you were born yesterday. Literally.»)
The gripping story of a young woman who keeps disappearing for weeks because she forgets who she is.
«Fikret Bačić, who takes my notebook and writes a list of the names of his extended family who went missing during the last week of July 1992. It takes him a long time; there are 29 of them, including his mother Sehriša, his wife Ninka, son Nermin, who was 12, daughter Nermina, who was six, four brothers including Zijad’s father, three sisters, several aunts, uncles and cousins. Of the 29, 19 are children; the youngest was two.»
Gut-wrenching. And a – I use this word sparingly – must-read.
I’d love to say otherwise, but I plead guilty. I invest too little time (and empathy) in really trying to understand people who hold opinions that differ from mine. And of course, I’m not alone. It’s easier to argue against and even easier to write off somebody else’s views than to try to understand what they are based on. That’s what this piece is about. Key passage: «A dare for the next time you’re in discussion with someone you disagree with: Don’t try to ‹win›. Don’t try to convince anyone of your viewpoint. Don’t score points by mocking them to your peers. Instead try to ‹lose›. Hear them out. Ask them to convince you and mean it.»
Every forty seconds, somebody, somewhere dies by suicide. What would it take to prevent most of those deaths?
The original version of this article has been read more than 2 million times and has sparked a major controversy. Which boils down to the question: Is it careless to write about climate change by highlighting worst-case scenarios rather than focusing on the ones that are more likely? Or is it careless not to? The autor has doubled down and delivered a heavily annotated version of the article. Excellent read.
«Sand» is probably not the first thing to come to your mind to complete the sentence «The world is running out of…». And reading a 5000 word story on just that is probably not was gets you overly excited. But trust me on this one.
«The question is not whether something works, but whether you know how to change it.» – an excellent text on how to predict the future.
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