Whether you call it free money, an economic stimulus, or a mini universal basic income, it could be the best recession-fighting measure we have.
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Whether you call it free money, an economic stimulus, or a mini universal basic income, it could be the best recession-fighting measure we have.
There are similarities between the situations—in both cases, the scientific community is offering clear warnings about what to do. Both involve public health. Climate change is already killing people in extreme heat waves and other disasters; it’s also worsening food and water shortages and it will displace hundreds of millions of people. The same pollutants that contribute heavily to climate change also cause air pollution that kills millions of people each year. Diseases like malaria and dengue fever are likely to spread as mosquitoes move into new regions. And as with coronavirus, people living in areas with the fewest resources are being impacted most by climate change. “Climate change also affects the most vulnerable first and worst,” says Boeve. “So we see that pattern play out as well, and how this is unfolding and how the response is and is not responding to that inequity and impact.” If the world was responding to climate change like it’s responding to the coronavirus—the level of urgency that the science says is necessary—things would look dramatically different. “We would see a lot of different things happening all at the same time,” says Boeve. Governments would come up with the funds to build the infrastructure needed to fully roll out renewable energy. “It’s cheap enough and available, but the regulatory systems that would enable people everywhere to get clean energy would require massive government investment,” she says. “We would see these kinds of emergency packages that would get people off of the fossil fuel grid and onto a clean grid right away.”
Amazon’s CEO just announced the Bezos Earth Fund, a $10 billion effort to fight climate change.
Too many important stories are being ignored because we’re all distracted by Trump’s circus act.
It’s good, cheap fun to blame millennials for the rise of selfies, spending all their money on avocado toast, and ruining brands, but there’s a growing consensus among millennials and gen Xers that it’s the baby boomers who deserve the blame. Thanks to boomers, loosely defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, millennials face massive college loans (which the current administration is not helping), inherited ongoing wars (which the current administration is not helping), and face an uncertain future when it comes to work. The majority of millennials blame the boomers, but, the big surprise is that according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll, a lot of boomers agree. The poll found that 51% of millennials (18- to 34-year-olds) blame boomers (51- to 69-year-olds) for making things worse for their generation. Just 13% said boomers had improved things. Generation X wasn’t pleased with the boomers, either. In fact, upon self-reflection, boomers weren’t entirely keen on their legacy either: 30% said policies created by their generation had made things worse, 32% said they had made things better, and 34% that they had done neither. Read the details of the poll here. And for further evidence of the problem with boomers, check out Bruce Gibney’s book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, which lays out the case that the boomers pillaged the economy, repeatedly cut their own taxes to the detriment of future generations, blew up the deficit fighting and financing two wars, ignoring climate change, putting America’s manufacturing on deathwatch, and leaving future generations to clean up the mess. If you’re looking for a change, though, keep in mind that 66% of millennials either disapprove or strongly disapprove of Trump’s job and really believe in the power of voting, with 77% registered to vote, and not as Republicans.
