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What the avocado cartels can teach us about adapting (opens the original)
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Ten years ago, the heroin market in the US almost collapsed overnight. A new synthetic opioid, fentanyl, began flooding the market from China. Street prices for heroin dropped by more than 50% while poppy farmers in Mexico saw their income fall by more than a quarter in less than 12 months.1 Add to that bloody territorial wars, widespread flooding affecting crops, Trump’s declaration of an opioid epidemic and pressure from the US administration to close the borders. For the cartels of Sinaloa, t
The things that connect (opens the original)
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We arrived in an empty room, chairs in a circle around a sea of music equipment. The set-up was exquisite. Every seat laid out with care. Corded headphones on every seat. Cords tucked away and taped so as not to trip us up on the way in. The band had arranged themselves in a circle too, facing each other. We waited in silence. Watching as each person arrived and took in the atmosphere. The relief in their body was impossible to ignore as the care that had gone into setting up this space landed f
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