” Follow science ” leads to ruin ‘
Björn Lomborg in the Wall Street Journal
The “Draconian Net -Noll” policy to end fossil fuel use “will have costs much greater than the climate change itself,” says Björn Lomborg. A better answer to global warming is to focus on “lifting the billions of people who are still in poverty out of it”, as it will improve their lives and “make them more resistant to extreme weather.” At the same time, governments and companies can “invest in research and development of green energy” to make “fossil fuel options” cheaper and more reliable
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Beth Kowitt at Bloomberg
The British royal family is “essentially a massive global brand,” says Beth Kowitt. It closed his eyes into a “mess” and tried to use a “carefully manufactured image” to wipe out a conspiracy theory about the health of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. Kensington Palace “learned the hard way what every big company’s brand should already know: If you will play on social media and court a committed and active audience, you know better what you do.”
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“What abortion rights have to do with voting rights”
Melissa Gira Grant in the new Republic
“Attacks against democracy and attacks on bodily autonomy are closer than some can imagine,” says Melissa Gira Grant. They are both part of what a new report from the Moving project calls a wave of attacks on education, access to health care, recognition of people’s identity, freedom of speech and other rights with the common goals to “mainstreaming exclusion and undermine democracy.” To defend democracy, you must start by defending people.
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‘Trump’s Tiktok Flip raises the billionaire.
Brendan Brothel in Politico
Donald Trump’s flip on Tiktok was “part of a pattern,” says Brendan Bordelon. During his presidency, Trump tried to ban the Chinese-owned social media short-operating app about concern that Beijing could use it to threaten US national security. But, as he has done before, Trump changed course after lobbying by a GOP sensor, this time with a huge proportion in Tiktok’s owner, replacement dance. This shows that Trump supports “which policy will best serve his billionaire supporter.”
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