#MoreBigLies: If there is a true scandal about #Covid19 #vaccines, it’s that 2.2 billion people remain #unvaccinated around the world because the #greedy #pharmaceutical companies (often with the support of powerful #governments) have forced poorer countries into #unfair, #predatory contracts rather than allow them to #manufacture the vaccines at a lower #cost.

#MakingPoorPoorer #ManufacturingPoverty #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #capitalismiskillingtheplanet

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/liberal-anti-vax-rfk-jr/

#EmissionInEquality: #Adapt to what? Suppose we manage to “adapt” to the current #game of whatever hellscape roulette we’re experiencing. If we do nothing to stop #climatechange, then more and more places will become #uninhabitable

#ManufacturingPoverty: They have to do with our past #choices, our governments and lingering #inequality.

#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #ClimateResponsibility #TragedyOfEnclosure

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tropical-storm-hilary-maui-wildfire-climate-change-rcna100969

#ManufacturingPoverty: #poverty persists because it is lucrative for everyone who doesn’t experience it themselves. The #poor experience poverty—but it is the rest of us who help #generate and #sustain it.

#GreenNewDealJobs #CapitalismCreatesOligarchs #FossilFuelsDegradeSubsistence #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #booksofmastodon #Bookreview

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond/