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Che cosa abbiamo fatto per meritarci Diego Fusaro?
di Raffaele Alberto Ventura pubblicato martedì, 7 aprile 2015 · 377 Commenti di Raffaele Alberto Ventura In principio era un sito Internet intitolato “La filosofia e i suoi eroi”. Nei primi anni Duemila, chi cercasse in rete informazioni su Platone o Aristotele poteva facilmente imbattersi in queste pagine redatte da uno studente torinese di nome Diego Fusaro. Il sito era una galleria di santini animata da una visione schematica della storia del pensiero, ricalcata dai manuali, ma trasudava di un entusiasmo impressionante. Ho assistito alla folgorante ascesa mediatica di Diego Fusaro con un misto d’invidia e di stupefazione. Stupefazione, tuttavia, perché a leggere e ascoltare certe esternazioni di Fusaro si può avere l’impressione di avere a che fare con un idiot savant che ripete meccanicamente degli slogan. Com’è potuta accadere questa cosa che chiamiamo Diego Fusaro? Talvolta il meccanismo s’inceppa e produce delle affascinanti anomalie, dei loop e dei glitch nel tessuto logico.
Waxman, Whitehouse, Blumenauer, and Schatz Release Carbon Price Discussion Draft
Today, Representative Henry A. Waxman, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Representative Earl Blumenauer, and Senator Brian Schatz released draft carbon-pricing legislation and solicited feedback on it from stakeholders and the public. The legislation would establish the polluter pays principle for dangerous carbon pollution, requiring large emitters to pay for the pollution they emit. The “discussion draft” released today contains a new and straightforward approach to putting a price on carbon pollution. “Putting a price on carbon could help solve two of the nation’s biggest challenges at once: preventing climate change and reducing the budget deficit,” said Rep. “Putting a price on carbon is the best way to reduce carbon pollution and slow the effects of climate change,” said Sen. “Let’s send a signal to big polluters that it’s past time to start putting a price on carbon pollution,” said Rep. 1. 2. 3. 4. All comments are welcome and can be submitted by email to cutcarbon@mail.house.gov.
Oh, Canada - By Andrew Nikiforuk
For decades, the world has thought of Canada as America's friendly northern neighbor -- a responsible, earnest, if somewhat boring, land of hockey fans and single-payer health care. On the big issues, it has long played the global Boy Scout, reliably providing moral leadership on everything from ozone protection to land-mine eradication to gay rights. The late novelist Douglas Adams once quipped that if the United States often behaved like a belligerent teenage boy, Canada was an intelligent woman in her mid-30s. Basically, Canada has been the United States -- not as it is, but as it should be. But a dark secret lurks in the northern forests. That's right: The good neighbor has banked its economy on the cursed elixir of political dysfunction -- oil. With oil and gas now accounting for approximately a quarter of its export revenue, Canada has lost its famous politeness. THE RESOURCE UNDERWRITING many of these ugly behavioral changes is bitumen, a heavy, sour crude mined from oil sands.
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Appunti sul Social-fascismo. La condivisione delle «idee senza parole»
L’articolo che proponiamo è tratto dall’ultimo numero di Nuova Rivista Letteraria, semestrale di letteratura sociale fondato da Stefano Tassinari e pubblicato dalle Edizioni Alegre. Il n.4 della nuova serie è interamente dedicato al linguaggio, alle ideologie che lo informano, alle sue potenzialità inesplorate, ai suoi usi (anche) politici. Tra gli autori, oltre ai redattori “storici” e ad Alberto Prunetti, ci sono Giuliano Santoro, Girolamo De Michele, Selene Pascarella, Claudio Dionesalvi, Wolf Bukowski… Clicca sulla copertina per leggere l’indice e, se ti va, abbonarti. Due numeri all’anno costano 15 euro (20 se richiedi la spedizione via corriere). di Alberto Prunetti * 0. Le retorica teatrale di Mussolini ̶ perentoria, decisionale, volontaristica, carica di iperboli e di allitterazioni ̶ non doveva convincere ma sedurre: era magia fonetica priva di semantica. 1. 2. Maiuscolo. Eccessi di possessivi. Un topos diffuso: il buonismo. Un altro topos: i “radical-chic”. Asserti falsi. 3.
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Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century
The report, reviewed by some of the world’s top scientists, is being released ahead of the next comprehensive studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013/14, and follows the Bank’s own Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change in 2008 (Check out: Development and Climate Change - A Strategic Framework for the World Bank Group for FY09-11) and the World Development Report on climate change in 2010. "Turn Down the Heat" combines a synthesis of recent scientific literature with new analysis of likely impacts and risks, focusing on developing countries. It chronicles already observed climate change and impacts, such as heat waves and other extreme events, and offers projections for the 21st century for droughts, heat waves, sea level rise, food, water, ecosystems and human health. "This report reinforces the reality that today’s climate volatility affects everything we do," said Rachel Kyte, the Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development.
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Finance Is Not the Economy
By Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson The authors thank the editor and two anonymous referees for helpful suggestions that greatly improved this article. Bezemer wishes to thank the Equilibrio Foundation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking for financial support. Why have economies polarized so sharply since the 1980s, and especially since the 2008 crisis? The last quarter century’s macro-monetary management, and the theory and ideology that underpinned it, was lauded by leading macroeconomists asserting that “The State of Macro[economics] is Good” (Blanchard 2008, 1). Get Evonomics in your inbox Nearly all this asset-price inflation was debt-leveraged. In this article, we present the building blocks for an alternative. Immoderate debt creation was behind that “Great Moderation” (Grydaki and Bezemer 2013). The credit crisis and recession are, therefore, a true paradigm test for economics (Bezemer 2011, 2012a, 2012b). Finance Is Not The Economy; Rent Is Not Income Empirical Evidence S.
Green America - About Us
Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. (We went by the name "Co-op America" until January 1, 2009.) Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Our Vision We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come. What Makes Green America Unique We focus on economic strategies—economic action to solve social and environmental problems. Our democratically-constituted board is elected by our members from our consumer, business, and staff stakeholders. Learn more about our work » Meet our staff and board » Read our history »
