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"last year hurricane damage cost Florida between 7.5% and 10% of the state’s GDP ... Taxpayers should not be helping the Real...

"last year hurricane damage cost Florida between 7.5% and 10% of the state’s GDP ... Taxpayers should not be helping the Real Housewives of Miami build seaside castles. ... Realistic premiums would deter reckless new construction. ... the longer politicians subsidise building in dangerous places, the worse the pain will be, and the bigger the final bill"

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/21/climate-change-is-coming-for-americas-property-market

In a great review of Howard French's Born in Blackness, Adom Getachew describes👇how it "undoes the marginalization of Africa in...

In a great review of Howard French's Born in Blackness, Adom Getachew describes👇how it "undoes the marginalization of Africa in our versions of the past and denaturalizes Africa's contemporary inequalities"

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/africa-the-center-of-history-born-in-blackness-howard-w-french/

ICYMI: Many rioters in #Brazil came from the #Amazon, @JonathanWatts writes 👇"Many in the “arc of deforestation” profited from...

ICYMI: Many rioters in #Brazil came from the #Amazon, @JonathanWatts writes 👇
"Many in the “arc of deforestation” profited from the #Bolsonaro years, which saw a 59.5% increase in land clearance and impunity for illegal gold mining and land-grabbing"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/10/brasilia-violence-amazon-bolsonaro-war-on-nature-in-brazil

"The biggest risk for #Putin therefore remains less dissatisfaction with the death toll but that the military effort put into this war...

"The biggest risk for #Putin therefore remains less dissatisfaction with the death toll but that the military effort put into this war continues to yield little, so that the sacrifices become sullied by a sense of futility rather than being uplifted by a great patriotic cause."

Lawrence Freedman 👇

https://samf.substack.com/p/makiiva-and-bakhmut-the-impact-of?sd=pf

"Pity the millennial. Greying at the temples, thinning on top and thickening round the middle. ... haunted by Instagram adverts for...

"Pity the millennial. Greying at the temples, thinning on top and thickening round the middle. ... haunted by Instagram adverts for fertility treatment, wills and Viagra", @duncanrobinson writes 👇
The bad news does not end there: "Call it the Dark Ages. ... British parents spend between a quarter and a third of their income ... on paying other people to look after the sprogs ... neither head, heart nor wallet provides much reason for younger people to vote Conservative"
https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/01/05/britons-in-their-thirties-are-stuck-in-a-dark-age

End-of-year review of how #ClimateSecurity fared in the #UNSC in 2022: ongoing divisions, progress made in 2022, and the outlook for 2023 ...

End-of-year review of how #ClimateSecurity fared in the #UNSC in 2022: ongoing divisions, progress made in 2022, and the outlook for 2023 👇

https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/unsc_climatechange_2022.pdf

Letter from retired defence attaché to @FinancialTimes shows that #JohnLeCarré didn't just make up all his character types (h/t...

Letter from retired defence attaché to @FinancialTimes shows that #JohnLeCarré didn't just make up all his character types (h/t @simonc): 👇

"It was not until I returned to the #UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the #EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in #Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.
All was subjugated to the #City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth."

ICYMI: Shocking revelations about ciabatta, fondue, Bailey's, salmon sushi & Belgian beers 👇: think competition (against French...

ICYMI: Shocking revelations about ciabatta, fondue, Bailey's, salmon sushi & Belgian beers 👇: think competition (against French baguettes), resource gluts (Gruyere, cream, salmon) & a 20th century ban on spirits in Belgian taverns ...

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/12/20/why-europes-traditional-foods-are-not-always-what-they-seem

Even after having been voted out of office, Donald #Trump trumped #ClimateChange in terms of newsworthiness in 2022 ... 👇...

Even after having been voted out of office, Donald #Trump trumped #ClimateChange in terms of newsworthiness in 2022 ... 👇 🤦‍♂️

War replaces disease as the world’s most newsworthy subject
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/12/20/war-replaces-disease-as-the-worlds-most-newsworthy-subject

Video synthesis 👇 of highlights of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference. As the risks of global environmenal change to peace &...

Video synthesis 👇 of highlights of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference.
As the risks of global environmenal change to peace & stability grow in scale, scope & visibility, #BCSC2022 saw political decision-makers & practitioners discuss and agree on action on #ClimateSecurity.

http://adelph.it/HighlightsBCSC2022

Key investors in & this year's most valuable asset of the German car industry

Key investors in & this year's most valuable asset of the German car industry

ICMYI: Interesting podcast 👇looking into the conflicts and cooperation between #Gulf countries & w/ #Iran, #Israel & the...

ICMYI: Interesting podcast 👇looking into the conflicts and cooperation between #Gulf countries & w/ #Iran, #Israel & the #US
TL;DL: reconciliation w/ #Qatar, suspicion + attempts to collaborate w/ #Iran, slow but limited emancipation from US

https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/gulf-and-arabian-peninsula/football-and-politics-gulf

#Introduction: I'm working on #climate and #foreignpolicy at #adelphi in #Berlin & checking out this new world as twitter's...

#Introduction: I'm working on #climate and #foreignpolicy at #adelphi in #Berlin & checking out this new world as twitter's future hangs in the balance...