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Ruby Scanlon

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  • “new, quality productive forces.
    China’s Plan to Spur Growth: A New Slogan for Building Factories - The New York Times
  • Likewise, the IPCC mentioned within its Sixth Assessment Report that meeting the Paris Agreement's temperature targets requires 'a timely phasing out of fossil fuels, especially coal, from the global energy system
    The rise of phase-out as a critical decarbonisation approach: a systematic review - IOPscience
  • The Communist party used to allow its people abundant economic opportunity in exchange for heavy restrictions on their political freedom. Now the so-called social contract is no longer clear. In the place of growth and opportunity are vague promises of security and “a better life”.
    The breakdown of China’s social contract
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding