Adam Toozeさんのイラストまとめ

American cloth from New England was so popular in East Africa by the 1830s that a new word emerged in Swahili to name it - 'Merikani. Made from cotton from Southern plantations it was an essential link in the economy of the East African slave trade.
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Since the 1960s we have been in an era of Locust recession, is climate change taking us into a new age of mega swarms? This webpage of the @FAO makes for fascinating reading!
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Maps from the @FAO give a horrifying impression of the scale of the Locust infestation in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.
https://t.co/47CuGTU2Vl

“Imagine paying someone 11k per day for the privilege to charter your ship,” The Baltic Capesize Index hits a record low, dropping 92 points, or 98.9%, for non-scrubber ships. New environmental regs & coronavirus take their toll.
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A "dirty history" of neoliberalism in the UK might well start with Adam Curtis’s extraordinary The Mayfair Set: How pays Wins. It traces genealogy of Thatcherite vision of “entrepreneurship” to adventurism of post-colonial British elite. https://t.co/nTwtWSFiBD

"that mad bloodhound Hoare” - Britain’s most (in)famous postwar mercenary died yesterday. Notorious for his anti-Communist exploits in post-colonial Africa. His career ended in fiasco with the "package holiday coup" against the Seychelles in 1981.
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Explaining the sluggish growth in US wages: Annual change in the employee cost index and the yearly change of its components relative to their respective means. @blackrock via @SoberLook

Carbon crimes: The volume of black-market hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) originating in China estimated by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency to be flooding the EU market is at least equivalent to the annual emissions of 3.5m cars. @jude_webber
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Franz Radziwill (1895-1983). His magical realist paintings of wartime Flanders offer a unique vision of World War II.
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CO2 on shipping lanes. It sounds ghoulish to say so, but one of the ways in which climate politics changes everything is that it exposes the physical sinews of our world far more starkly than standard econ policy discussion. @AnjliRaval @joshspero
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