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Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
- Expanding national parks and protected areas will not be enough to halt the destruction of nature
- The built environment reinforces cultural messages
- There will be a fresh wave of Omicron cases in the early summer
- New technologies are more likely to amplify the inequalities and the injustices of a society than to undo them
- The policing bill is about state control
- The commons enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others
- Self-governance is a mode of resistance
- The commons enables people to foster togetherness without compulsion
- Covid-19 will not just disappear
- gift economies build community
- The Public Order Act already makes peaceful protest harder than in almost every other democracy
- Governance is the extension of whiteness on a global scale
- The policing bill will undermine the right to protest at a critical moment in the fight to avoid climate breakdown
- There is a latent fascist waiting to emerge in all humans
- The next UK election will be decided in the north of England
- Cuba is world-leading in agroecology
- Keir Starmer is a bit dull
- Democracy is in retreat worldwide
- Solarpunk is about technologies that de-abstract human relationships with the material world
- All you need is links
- Democracies are inherently unstable and susceptible to ruin by aggressive, skilled demagogues
- Boris Johnson is a liar
- We need vaccine equity
- Democracy functions best at the level of the city
- More Covid variants are inevitable
- Britain's welfare system is "unfit for purpose" and in urgent need of reform
- Vaccinations and acquired immunity mean that there is no longer much risk of becoming severely unwell from Covid
- Governing complex economies and societies by consent is hard
- Social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society
- revolution is a necessary precondition for a transition from capitalism to socialism
- State socialism is good for the environment
- The policing bill is an embrace of a new authoritarianism
- Food is a human right, not a commodity
- Britain's early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history
- A commons is a politics of belonging
- Local communities are the primary organisms within human society
- The menace of Trumpism is darker now than it ever was before
- The policing bill is an attack on some of the most basic democratic rights of citizens
- Widespread racial inequality is embedded in healthcare in England
- To be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist
- We do not have vaccine equity
- Structurally decentralized technologies do not guarantee decentralized power
- Covid antiviral drugs significantly reduce the chances of hospitalisation and death
- Commoning represents a profound challenge to capitalism
- The policing bill increases the risk of peaceful demonstrators being criminalised
- 1.3 million people, or 2% of the population, are estimated to be living with long Covid
- Free software is a gift economy
- For-profit healthcare systems are a piece-of-shit
- Humans are eusocial animals
- The commons enables people to assert sovereignty without nationalism
- Free software enacts 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'
- Planning to get Omicron in order to gain some immunity or get it over with is a terrible idea
- Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity
- Households across the UK will see rising prices and stalling wages in 2022
- The government should invest in the NHS, not privatise it
- The commons enables people to enact fairness without bureaucratic control
- Reality is identical with divinity
- Britain's history contains astonishing levels of greed and cruelty
- Britain is better off without Bristol's monument to Colston
- Benefits need to increase
- Cutting the Covid isolation period to five days is foolhardy and dangerous
- There is no such thing as knowledge
- Markets for goods and services are compatible with socialism
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Acknowledging historic injustices is part of building a more equal society today