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@70sBachchan
Jul 2, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Green city experiments are happening worldwide. 20thC was all about building cities around cars. Coronavirus allows for emergency measures that permanently revitalize neighborhoods & public spaces. bit.ly/pandemicurbani…
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
If you added up all the space Manhattan gives to cars — roadway, street parking, garages — you’d have an area nearly 4 times as large as Central Park.

What if all that space was given to people? What then? Clean air? Safe streets? Healthy bodies? @fmanjoo nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi…
In Paris,Anne Hidalgo used lockdown time to create more cycling lanes. Residents can get up to 500 euros to buy an electric bike & a €50 reimbursement to repair an old bike. Unsurprisingly, a cycling boom in a car-mad city. 3/ #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
time.com/5864707/paris-…
This could be every city. 4/
Bogota's mayor, Claudia López, opened up nearly 72 miles of new bike routes in March. With car traffic down, the city replaced 35kms with new 'emergency' bike paths. Similar $100M plan in New Zealand. Guerrilla urbanism! 5/
discerningcyclist.com/2020/04/pop-up…
N. American cities: ~50% of commuters drive. Cost? Pedestrian fatalities, congestion, sprawl & .

European cities: ~50% of commuters cycle. Benefits? Safer, healthier, wealthier & greener.

Cities are cash-strapped & greener is way cheaper. 2020 could be a turning point. 6/
Bicycles are selling like hot cakes and in the best kind of supply-chain disruption story (remember #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax?) manufacturers can't keep up w demand. Cycle sales in the US have been the highest since the oil crisis of the 1970s!!
dw.com/en/covid-19-ca…
8/ Amazing crowd-sourcing by Tabitha Combs @DCRPcarolina to put together what 100s of cities have done to create safer, people-friendly streets.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
pedbikeinfo.org/WalkBikeSocial…

#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
9/ At least 100 cities have abolished fares in public transport!! Its the first time I've heard of guerrilla urbanism but its apparently on? #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax ht @wkeblowski
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
10/ Coronavirus is to 21st Century as
Cholera was to 19th Century.
@citiesforpeople not tons of metal —Jan Gehl.
petkovstudio.com/bg/wp-content/…

If a car-mad city can change so fast, every city can. 2 is to 1 ratio of cycle to car space should be the new Paris Climate Agreement
If you added up all the space Manhattan gives to cars — roadway, parking, garages — you’d have an area nearly 4 times as large as Central Park

What if all that space was given to people? What then? Clean air? Safe streets? Healthy bodies? @fmanjoo #NUMTOT nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi… Image

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Aug 22
The "flying geese" model
"(originally presented by Akamatsu), according to which transfers of tech foreign investment, &trade between richer and poorer parts of a region generate development through a restructuring in the division of labor" - Alice Amsden
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2/"Japanese and South Korean firms built supply chains across SE Asia to lower production costs and reach Western markets. Samsung invested heavily in manufacturing plants in Vietnam. Japanese automakers like Toyota...set up auto plants across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia" Image
3/ "And of course, Japan and South Korea helped turn China into a global manuf hub. Along the way, Japanese & Korean companies frequently brought over their own machinery and equipment while keeping the high-tech, high-value work at home." - @kyleichan
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NEW Dispatch @polycrisis @kmac: Trump is BRICS' greatest champion. buttondown.com/polycrisisdisp…Image
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Holy moly trump killed Moderna in US!!
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." Image
“The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.”
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Trump government curbing research in vaccines, satellites, NIH, NSF, cancer research, clean energy,
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America in its florentine Medici
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Free market capitalism is designed to produce Billionaire Raj. But the extraordinary FAANG tech boom is a v recent development. Since 2016 the largest corporations have shot up in market value. Their CEOs became *more* Right to protect wealth from taxes policytensor.substack.com/p/a-note-on-th…Image
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Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to lead in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report:
netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green-o… x.com/maxvejares/sta…Image
Claudia Sheinbaum:“Plan Mexico is the path that I am certain will lead us to a Mexico with more well-paid jobs, with less poverty & inequality...with a lower carbon footprint that respects the environment and increases our self-sufficiency and sovereignty"
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3/ How did Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum became the most popular president in the world?
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“We will not return to the neoliberal model … We will continue with Mexican Humanism and with the maxim of ‘For the good of all, first the poor.’”
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"The Financial Times has misled its readers by not clearly stating that its promotion of trade blocs and revision of other key principles means in reality the abandonment of neoliberal globalization as a project"

This shd be published in FT @BrankoMilan
braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov…
Its genesis was Martin Wolf leaving a tart comment on Milanovic's blogpost:

Wolf misread @BrankoMilan argument which was not a peaen to Trump ending global neoliberalism but that he ia tool of History. Well worth reading:

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Martin Wolf: "It is conflicts over power that most threaten globalisation. By seeking to enhance their security, great powers make their rivals more insecure, creating a vicious downward spiral of distrust. We are already a long way down this spiral" ft.com/content/8954a5…Image
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