What was so different, so much more appealing about indigenous life? “The fact that we find it hard to imagine how such an alternative life could be endlessly engaging and interesting,” the authors suggest, “is perhaps more a reflection on the limits of our imagination than on the life itself.”

And other dispatches from the prison industrial complex By Lydia Christiansen, Kaleb Riggs, and Jesse Miles For several years now, The Flood has accepted rolling

Once we accept the unavoidable, seismic changes that the climate crisis promises for the coming decades, we are faced with two worldviews.

Some of the only statements in line with these realities were made by representatives of the “SIDS” — small island developing states — which make up 20% of UN membership and whose very existence is threatened at a 1.5° increase. “We refuse to be relegated to the footnotes of history, and to be collateral damage for the greed of others,” said Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados. “Make no mistake. There will be mass migration by climate refugees that will destabilize the countries of the world that are not on the front line of the climate crisis.”

The hand-in-glove nature of big tech and government relations becomes especially concerning as Zuboff begins to outline the next stage of surveillance capitalism, which she terms “instrumentarian power,” or the ability to modify and manage users behavior directly. With the imperative to improve prediction, it was only a matter of time before companies realized that the most effective way to predict a person’s behavior is to control it.