#Brooke Jarvis, "Good Years," The New Yorker, May 17, 2021. - "Between the Spanish flu of 1918 and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, global life expectancy doubled." "For much of human history, our early years were so stalked by disease and infection and diarrhea that between a third and a half of us never escaped our own perilous childhoods." "Even in modern American cities, people born into poor neighborhoods can expect to live as many as thirty years fewer than people who are born into affluence ones across town."
"An editorial in the journal 'Age and Aging' had noted that the latest trends seemed to be favoring the second theory, with extra years being achieved not through better overall health, but 'predominantly through the technological advances that have been made in extending the life' of people who were sick, and experiencing various degrees of suffering." "Doctors wo specialize in aid in dying often distinguish between 'despair suicides,' the most familiar version, and 'rational suicides,' those sought by people who have, in theory, weighed a terminal or painful or debilitating diagnosis, and made a measured, almost mathematical, choice about how to deal with it."
#Thomas Meaney, "Rising in the East," The New Yorker, May 17, 2021. - "[Benedict] Anderson, [author of "Imagined Communities'], and his generation of scholars saw nationalism in Asia as the work of, on the one hand, elites who were educated by colonialism, and then turned against it, and, on the other, mobilizations by peasants and urban youth whose total consciousness merely needed to be stirred."
"The more empires tried to cultivate loyal subjects capable of working in their colonial bureaucracy, the more they produced frustrated, overeducated, dangerous, students who coordinated across borders." "Asian radicals were also tracked by a pervasive system of surveillance maintained by imperial intelligence departments."
#Rafia Zakaria, "The Argument," The Nation, 5.3 -10.2021. "At the height of the pandemic, the grounding of air travel in 2020 led to a 60 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from aviation." "Prior to the pandemic year, the United States, with just over 4 percent of the world's population, was responsible for 24 percent of all emissions from passenger flights And within the US, just 12 percent of adults take 68 percent of the flights."
"American tourists who fly on a whim and imagine that their recycling efforts and use of cloth bags makes up for the huge costs they impose on the climate should be taken to task."
#[Rep.] Mark Pocan, "Q & A," The Nation, 5.3 - 3 - 10.2021. - "For them to argue about whether or not some of their workers have to urinate in bottles because of the schedules they're put on, to fight on a point like that -- which could so easily be disproven -- was really a huge miscalculation. It shows the arrogance of corporations that get too big." "If you look at the 1950s,when you had the highest rates of unionization, you had the lowest rates of income inequality. Since then, union membership has decreased from around 33 percent of the workforce to around 10 percent."
#Kali Holloway, "Justice for George Floyd?" The Nation, 5.3 - 10.2021. - Eric Nelson, Derek Chauvin's defense attorney, leaned "into the fallacy of superior Black strength, and what the neuroscientist Carl L. Hart labels the 'drug-crazed Negro' myth. In his opening statement, Nelson compared Floyd's 6-foot, 3-inch frame with Chauvin's 5-foot, 9-inch height, a contrast to paint Chauvin as helplessly dwarfed by Floyd."
"Studies show that white people believe Black people are inherently more aggressive, larger, more threatening, and less susceptible to pain than white people, stereotypes that make victimhood off-limits to Black people."
ADDENDUMS:
*Mark Hartsgaard, "Emergency Now!" The Nation, 5.3 - 10.2021. - " 'Failure to slash the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make the extraordinary heat, storms, wildfires, and the ice melt of 2020, routine, and could render a significant portion of the earth uninhabitable,' warned a recent 'Scientific American' article."
*Paulina Cachero, "Close the digital divide," TIME, May 24/May 31, 2021. - "And the Biden Administration has proposed spending $100 billion to invest in 'future-proof' broadband networks, while Republicans pitched $65 billion." "According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 16% of U.S, adults are not digitally literate because of lack of access and language barriers."
*Linda Harts, founder and CEO of The Memo, Time, May 24/May 31, 2021. - "Studies show companies with diverse and inclusive cultures outperform organizations that do not invest in diversity."
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