"To be sure, this total lack of scruples recalls the attitude of the Nietzschean Übermensch, for whom everything is permissible. [..] His desire is to oversee a permanent secession not of the plebs from the patriciate, as occurred in ancient Rome (as in the fable of Menenius Agrippa) but of the patriciate from the plebs."

#MarcoDEramo on #PeterThiel

Capital’s Militant

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/capitals-militant

#TechMoguls #SiliconValley #Thiel #Palantir #NewRight #TechBros #PayPalMafia

#NewLeftReview

"The elites are fond of dangling a grass-coloured future in front of us – deodorized, disinfected and depolluted thanks to #biofuels and #ElectricCars. But to produce sufficient #biofuel we’d have to cover the earth with soy plantations, definitively deforesting the planet .. "

#MarcoDEramo

Jet-Setters

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/jet-setters

#SustainableTransport #GreenCapitalism #greenwashing #GreenTransition #Inequality #PrivateJets

#NewLeftReview

"According to a 2017 study, total #InsectBiomass has dropped by 75% in the last 25 years. [...] There are many causes for this decline, but #ArtificialLighting is certainly one, because the majority of #insects are nocturnal. We don’t realize it, but illuminated #cities are a major migratory destination for insects from the countryside. Light also disturbs their reproductive rituals."

#MarcoDEramo

"Starless Sky"

#NewLeftReview

#LightPollution #health #biodiversity

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/starless-sky