Posts tagged: economy

Global risks for you and me

 

This WEF global risks grid compiled from survey respondent answers seems, at first, to be a pretty good stab at the issues on the table.  Now, try and take another look without slipping into a heavily comatose state.  These terms, familiar to us thanks to the daily grind of ‘very serious information,’ is the apex of mechanistic, non-sentient language, not far removed from what you might find in an IKEA shelving unit assembly manual. Impossible to decipher and skull-crushingly dull, both destined to go straight in the bin for most normal people.
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Rebuilding blocks: sustainability, economics, design

There is no contest in a footrace between a well-oiled, just-in-time-schooled car maker, looking to shift as many units as possible in a new market, and a decision-by-committee megacity administration trying to put in place an urban infrastructure fit for the 21st century. Handily, the auto maker also gets to socialise the losses (more gridlocked roads, fuel dependency, air pollution, deterioration of public space etc) and move on. Read More…