HeyJaredSense and Sustainability
An insider's thoughts about sustainability - no jargon or hopelessness allowed.
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Lessons from Luxury (opens the original)
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This blog spends a lot of time talking about things that are going wrong. In my defence, there’s an awful lot to say about what’s not going well these days.What I haven’t been good about is describing what might be going right. Moreover, I feel there’s a need to propose solutions that might alleviate the malaise I’m forever chronicling.I’d like to devote a couple essays to glimpses of better things, starting with this one. My subject matter here is a strange pick: luxury.Let’s get all the caveat
Crime, no Punishment (opens the original)
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The late, great David Graeber, in his book The Utopia of Rules, shared a conversation he had with an economist after the 2008 financial crash. He asked an important question: “why everyone was still waiting for even one bank official to be brought to trial for any act of fraud leading up to the crash of 2008.” The economist replied that “the approach taken by US prosecutors to financial fraud is always to negotiate a settlement… the financial institution has to pay a fine… but they don’t actuall
None of the Above (opens the original)
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At my old job, I was once asked to write a blog post with everyday sustainability tips for tea drinkers.One area of interest, according to our marketing team, was washing mugs. Was it more sustainable to wash by hand, or to use a dishwasher?No problem, I thought. There are ways of evaluating these things and I should be able to nail down an answer.To make a long story short, I couldn’t. At the end of way more research than I ever thought possible on the subject – delaying the release of the blog
Tell Me a Story (opens the original)
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The insightful Michael Burns recently posted a video essay that opens with the stories entertained by today’s right wing. This has been a defining feature of my awareness of right-wing politics for years: from Jewish Space Lasers to gay marriage destroying democracy to Q Anon to Pizzagate to vaccine conspiracies, you could never fault contemporary conservatives for a lack of imagination.Burns contrasts this vivid, emotionally supercharged fantasy world with the counternarrative put fo
The One with the Math (opens the original)
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Occasionally, the algorithm will send you something unexpected yet perfect. That was the case for me earlier this week, when a video appeared in my YouTube recommendations entitled “Our Inability to Understand the Exponential Function is our Biggest Weakness”.My immediate reaction, as someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about this kind of thing, was “no it isn’t.” But then I watched the video.What the speaker points out, in a lovely, simple illustration, is that exponential increase
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