Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. (Not millions, as we mistakenly reported last week. Thanks to a reader for pointing out our error.) "Many of these fatalities could have been avoided" in the U.S., Nick French wrote for Jacobin, "if we had a social order that placed the needs of people over profit."
"Make no mistake," French continued: "we’re facing a pandemic that could produce one of the worst mass deaths in human history, and capitalism will be responsible for many of them."
"I’ve just finished the two volumes of William T. Vollmann’s Carbon Ideologies (spurred by the passage I read in a recent Adbusters). Vollmann has sparked my imagination in many ways. Yes, the computer models foretell the climate apocalypse — but what they don’t predict is what will people do." — Blair Emsick
"I wonder — do you feel alone? I hate to imagine you feel as lonely as I do, watching the moon wax and wane across the dull blackness. If you're lonely, dear jammer, look up. I'll be looking too." — STARGAZING THEREABOUT PHILLY
