Thanks to a very busy 2022, some ongoing shaggy dog stories have not gotten the attention they deserve. One is the persistent battle by counsel working on behalf of the…
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Yves here. While in theory the public trust angle seems a promising mechanism for preventing or impeding private control and resulting rentierism of essential resource, my impression is this article…
Thor’s incredible 3,000-mile journey: How celebrity walrus named after Norse god swam from his Arctic home to the shores of north Europe – before heading back after UK New Year…
Because Russia made some big-arrow moves across Ukraine early in the war, and did quickly bring Ukraine to the negotiable, a lot of arm chair generals have become very impatient…
Yves here. While this post is a helpful first pass at a thorny topic, there are a lot more layers to the question of the role of population reduction as…