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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

”When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller.” Läs mer

The business problems only customers can solve

”In the absence of solutions that customers control, both customers and businesses are forced to use business-side-only solutions that limit customer power to what can be done within each business’s silo, or to await regulatory help, usually crafted by captive regulators who can’t even imagine full customer agency.” Läs mer

Subject, Consumer, or Citizen: Three Post-Covid Futures

”What would you do in this time if you truly believed in yourself and in those around you?” Läs mer

Sveriges utsläpp minskade med 3,2 procent 2019

”Ny preliminär statistik visar att Sveriges klimatpåverkande utsläpp minskade förra året. Utsläppen minskade både inom industrin och inrikes transporter som står för ungefär två tredjedelar av Sveriges utsläpp.” Läs mer

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap

”Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted. And modeling of that price decline leads me to forecast that solar will continue to drop in price faster than I’ve previously expected, and will ultimately reach prices lower than virtually anyone expects. Prices that are, by any stretch of the measure, insanely, world-changingly cheap.” Läs mer

The news fatigue is growing around COVID-19

”If one person says it’s raining, and another person says it’s not, our job, as journalists, isn’t to cover what these people said, but to look out the window and see what is actually going on.” Läs mer

Trump’s latest effort to gaslight America is falling apart

”It’s also that this shatters the larger illusion Trump is trying to weave with his magical reality-bending powers — that the coronavirus has been so tamed by his stupendous leadership that it’s now safe to reopen the country, setting the stage for an equally spectacular Trump-marshaled comeback.” Läs mer

Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths. It’s the media’s job not to play along.

”Consider the way news outlets and pundits have adopted the language of “reopening the country” from politicians, making it a constant in headlines, cable panel discussions and radio reports. This terminology presents a false choice.” Läs mer