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      The Commodification of the Commons Is Killing Us All

      Whether it's oil barons, giant utilities, private schools, drug companies, insurance predators, or greedy ranchers who want to use public lands to graze their cows without paying a public fee that would help maintain and restore those lands, the commons are under continuous low-level assault by greed and the neoliberalism that celebrates it.

      Thom Hartmann
      Apr 14, 2023

      Americans used to understand the difference between private and public, between what government should regulate or even administer, and what is appropriately left in the private marketplace.

      Ever since the Reagan Revolution, however — as I lay out in The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America — even our very lives have become fodder for the buzzsaw of unrestrained raw capitalism controlled by the morbidly rich.

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      A Change in Values to Reverse a Nation in Perilous Decline

      A Change in Values to Reverse a Nation in Perilous Decline

      We need a value to replace greed as our highest goal. Compassion? Justice? Love of truth? We do not know how to name it precisely, but that does not mean we cannot strive for something that can guide us, other than concerns with money.

      Huck Gutman
      Apr 10, 2023

      According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2021 almost 60 percent of girls encountered depressive sadness, and one-third seriously considered attempting suicide.

      Child labor — and particularly labor in dangerous conditions — is rising rapidly among immigrant children.

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      Report Calls for Water to Be Treated as 'Global Common Good' as Supply Crisis Looms

      Water overuse and a failure to recognize that countries are interdependent when it comes to the global water cycle has placed the world on a path to a potential 40% freshwater supply shortfall by the end of the decade.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 17, 2023

      Ahead of the first United Nations conference on water in more than four decades, experts from the Global Commission on the Economics of Water released a landmark report Friday to warn the international community that the world is "heading for massive collective failure" in the management of the planet's water supply and demand that governments treat water as a "global common good."

      Policymakers' failure to ensure equal access to water, protect freshwater ecosystems, and recognize that communities and countries are interdependent when it comes to the global water cycle has resulted in two billion people lacking a safe drinking supply and "the prospect of a 40% shortfall in freshwater supply by 2030, with severe shortages in water-constrained regions," according to the report.

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