Stewart M. Patrick in Foreign Affairs:

If a crisis of this magnitude cannot reshape how countries formulate their national interests, definitions of international security, or approaches to the global economy, perhaps nothing will. But this predicament does not call for resignation. It cries out, instead, for a commitment to our role as stewards of the only planet we have. It cries out for planetary politics.

Dat is uiteraard een open deur intrappen. De man biedt een aantal kapstokken, zoals:

The most effective solution would be for WTO members to adopt a blanket climate waiver that permits so-called border adjustments for carbon in the form of taxes on imports and rebates on exports. This would permit EU countries, for instance, to penalize imports of carbon-intensive cement from Russia and Turkey and reward other trading partners that use greener production methods. Such an arrangement would encourage the formation of “climate clubs,” made up of countries committed to reducing emissions and thus eligible for nondiscriminatory treatment.

De EU werd ooit gestart vanuit een gemeenschappelijk belang in steenkool. Misschien moeten we nieuwe instrumenten ontwikkelen die klimaatvriendelijke naties in staat stellen om nieuwsoortige samenwerkingen te verzinnen. We steken enorm veel energie om alle EU-lidstaten mee te krijgen, terwijl er over grenzen en oceanen heen misschien veel meer te betekenen valt.

Renee DiResta voor The Atlantic:

[S]ocial media has ended the monopoly of mass-media propaganda. But it has also ushered in a new competitor: ampliganda—the result of a system in which trust has been reallocated from authority figures and legacy media to charismatic individuals adept at appealing to the aspects of personal or ideological identity that their audiences hold most dear.

Tweakers:

Nintendo heeft een update voor de Switch-consoles uitgebracht, waarmee bluetoothaudioapparaten aan de consoles gekoppeld kunnen worden.

*Finally.*

Colossal:

Jelmer Mommers op De Correspondent:

De belangrijkste conclusie uit dit IPCC-rapport is wat mij betreft dat we nog steeds zelf bepalen hoe warm het op aarde wordt. En daarmee bepalen we ook zelf hoe ontwrichtend de opwarming wordt.

Zeynep Tufekci:

Digital media doesn’t just isolate groups; rather, it helps tribalize us even further. We certainly encounter “the other” online, but usually in caricature form. We seek out these cartoonish people and positions regardless of how frequently they actually occur or what else might be happening. Both traditional media and social media helps produce the stories, algorithms amplify it, and platforms and media all get an audience out of it, and as individuals we can get attention (from virality) and an outlet for our anger and sense of helplessness.

Dokter Jordan L. Shlain op Medium:

Umair Haque:

What, though, let the Nazis go from failed coup to successful one? It wasn’t just that they learned. It wasn’t just that their movement hardened and escalated and grew committed to avenging the failure of the first one — just like Trumpism is getting obsessed with now. Something else — something even more crucial — happened, too.

Society downplayed the dangers. Once the first coup failed, the mistaken impression in a struggling, failing Weimar Germany was that the Nazis were more or less a spent force. Columnists and pundits told the average person to forget about them. They weren’t a real danger to society. The average person, meanwhile, believed them.

Sound familiar? It should.