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The Anti-Work Movement and the Surge in Self-Employment

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Because of the pandemic, millions of people are reexamining their career paths and goals, relationship to work, and priorities. Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs – The Guardian: A “long read” article from 2018 covering the history of the antiwork movement and recent (at least in 2018) developments. 

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The new IPCC climate report is hugely important — and here are 6 main takeaways

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warmer than in the previous IPCC report in 2013. (It The report highlights that some recently observed hot extremes, such as the Australian summer of 2012–2013 , would have been extremely unlikely without human influence on the climate. meters between 1901 and 2018. the globally agreed goals of the Paris Agreement.

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These 8 cities around the world are putting their focus on biking and walking — not cars

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This bigger network of bike paths and lanes should help the city in raising its already-impressive seven percent of trips taken by bike to reach its ambitious goal of 50 percent. In 2013, it created an urban mobility plan to improve bus routes and expand biking and walking paths. Metro area population: 4.1 Metro area population: 5.6

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