The Great Acceleration
I’ve long been a fan of the film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. It has always seemed obvious to me that the ever-increasing speed of late industrialization was both pointless and harmful to life on the planet. In recent decades, we have seen most productivity gains go to the very top; inequality has spiked, the climate crisis is exploding, and democracy is wilting under a rapid-fire glut of disinformation. Change is inevitable, but this degree of disruption and instability is simply inhuman.
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01.26.2022 | Posted in Weekly Cartoon
Tags: authoritarianism, climate, climate change, economy, environment, inequality
Tags: authoritarianism, climate, climate change, economy, environment, inequality
