Moving from material excess to nonmaterial challenges and pleasures. Professor Emeritus at Athabasca University. Fan of West Ham United
Joined April 2009
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L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
The kid on the left should have kept it all to maximise her self-interest,
& the kid on the right should have been inspired by inequality to aspire higher or be resigned to acceptance, not given a handout. Why do kids keep on failing this economics test? xitter.cf/schuld_eth/status/1808…
All 10 of #Canada's provinces have now committed to ending their immigration detention deals with #CBSA, a major victory for refugee rights. It's time @JustinTrudeau takes meaningful steps to end immigration detention across the country. #WelcomeToCanada hrw.org/welcometocanada
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
Coke & Pepsi profit from sugar in western India where "young girls are pushed into illegal child marriages so they can work alongside their husbands cutting & gathering sugar cane." Many are pushed to have needless hysterectomies to "keep them working."
nytimes.com/2024/03/24/world…
Thank you Dr. Arrigo
nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/je…
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
STUDY: Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving. “A new study reveals how unconscious bias leads us to neglect negative externalities of driving. You may call it ‘car brain,’ but this research team calls it motonormativity.” theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579…
Judge says we shouldn't know how much precious energy is wasted with bitcoin arstechnica.com/?p=2006246
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
Brazilian beef is the biggest driver of tropical deforestation in the world.
And the United States is importing more of it than ever before.
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
Here is the "Doonesbury" cartoon that Gannett removed from ALL of their newspapers this past Sunday. That's almost 400 news papers including USA Today.
dailycartoonist.com/index.ph…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Gannett did not remove this strip in particular. It had already removed Doonesbury from the list of comic strips available to newspapers in the chain. cbr.com/doonesbury-com…
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
How do “tragic accidents” happen? By consistently choosing cars over people.
These aren’t accidents.
They’re the inevitable results of our choices.
Part of @tomflood1’s campaign to use car company marketing techniques against them.
People over cars.
xitter.cf/tomflood1/status/13780…
L. K. Grant | @bkinetic@fosstodon.org retweeted
Tonight we used carshare to make our bi or tri-annual trip to IKEA in the burbs. Convenient carshare is an underestimated element of building a multi-modal place with not only low car use, but low car ownership (and thus less need to build parking).
Build a carshare strategy.
In Vancouver, each #carshare shared vehicle replaces up to 20 personally owned vehicles, with their associated space, costs and carbon footprint for parking. Carshare is a key ally of walking, biking & public transit, & is critical to move from low car use to low car ownership.
Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual defector.com/palestinian-suf…
Low love levels reaching crisis proportions counterpunch.org/2023/10/13/…
For The Wall Street Journal, the Climate Call is Coming From Inside the HouseFor <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, the Climate Call is Coming From Inside the House
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The USDA now serving bogus burgers on your plate: The B.S. Behind the USDA’s New “Climate-Friendly Beef” Label newrepublic.com/article/1753… Follow @newrepublic