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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

This was hardly the first expression of concern about the potentially devastating economic impacts of climate change on companies, markets, nations and the global economy. And if you really want a sleepless night or two, read this story about “The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California,” published recently in Mother Jones magazine.

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Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year

Envirotec Magazine

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% in just two years from 92.8 billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. to 92 billion tonnes[1].

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AI Ethics Are in Danger. Funding Independent Research Could Help

Stanford Social Innovation

These much larger models, however, have goals as broad and complex as “meaningfully answering any possible text question” and require resources far out of reach of all but the most well-funded corporate institutions and academic labs. In a recent piece in The New York Times Magazine entitled “A.I.