If politicians were painters, with FDR as Titian and Churchill as Rubens, then Attlee would be the Vermeer of the profession: precise, restrained—and long undervalued. Bill Clinton might aspire to the heights of Salvador Dalí (and believe himself complimented by the comparison), Tony Blair to the standing - and cupidity - of Damien Hirst.
In the arts, moral seriousness speaks to an economy of form and aesthetic restraint ...
Tony Judt, 'Austerity', (NYRB)
The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy
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This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler
When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the
conversation almost always ...
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