Issue 78 June 8th 2020

Blog/Commentary

Weekly Earth Equity Commentary

My latest Earth Equity Commentary from June 4th

Politics

History Will Judge the Complicit - Why Do Republican Leaders Continue to Enable Trump? - The Atlantic

A long but worthwhile read...

US racial inequality in 6 stark charts - CNNPolitics

Photography

Photography: How they tried to curb Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 - BBC News

Responsible Investing

Mellody Hobson: Incentivizing Better Racial Relationships

Media

Social media fact-checking is not censorship.

Climate Change

Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism - The New York Times

Health/Biotech

US anti-vaxxers aim to spread fear over future coronavirus vaccine | World news | The Guardian

Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds - The Washington Post

Science

The Sea’s Weirdest Creatures, Now in ‘Staggering’ Detail - The New York Times

Social Responsibility

The Business of Building Utopia | Outside Online

Developed by my friend, Steve Nygren

Why communities of color are demanding environmental justice - Los Angeles Times

Culture

Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests - Vox

How Police Became Paramilitaries | by Michael Shank | The New York Review of Books

The militarization of our police forces must be stopped!

How to spot misinformation and stop its spread - The Washington Post

Opinion | Coronavirus Showed How Globalization Broke the World - The New York Times