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JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only necessary, but affordable.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

The vision is one where we can do, with direct collaboration, much of what corporations and governments do today, and we can do it better.

Backfeed wants to decentralize the Internet and help you earn what you deserve

The blockchain makes the local to global egalitarian economy possible.

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Berto Jongman: World of Walls — 65 Countries with Border Fences

10 Security

berto smallWorld of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants

  • Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the world
  • A third of the world's countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • They include Israel's ‘apartheid wall', India's 2,500-mile fence around Bangladesh and Morocco's huge sand ‘berm'
  • Experts are dismissive, saying: ‘Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security'
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Jean Lievens: Quantitative Easing with Integrity – NOT Involving Banks

03 Economy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Prominent Economists Who Advocate a Different Type of Quantitative Easing

EXTRACT

“Now more than ever, what the Eurozone needs is that injections of new money be directed to households, not to commercial banks   . . .   One good place to start is with the textbook example of printing money to finance consumption – sending every adult in the country a voucher that can be spent in the next three months.

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