The infamous Apple typewriter memo is 40 years old ... by [[Richard Polt]]

for - stats - construction mafia impacts - South Africa - 2019 - R63 billion - Overview of the Construction Mafia Crisis in South Africa - Inclusive Society Institute - 2023

for - stats - global annual economic cost of insect pollinators - 235 to 577 billion USD - OECD 2019

for - stats - ecosystem disruption and financial losses study - Dutch investors risk 510 billion EUR or 36% of the Dutch 1.4 trillion EURO investment is at risk

for - quote - exceeding 2 Deg C may result in a billion deaths - Joshua Pearce

quote - exceeding 2 Deg C may result in a billion deaths - Joshua Pearce - (see below) - If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, - mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans - through anthropogenic global warming, - which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.

• for: future cities - Africa, CommuniTgrow, urban planning - Africa, African cities, futures - African cities, 2 Billion Strong, Gita Govin, Richard Rubin, Alistair Rendall

• title:

  • 2 Billion Strong
    • A Regenerative Solution to Building Sustainable African Cities
• author
  • Gita Govin
  • Richard Rubin
  • Alistair Rendall
• date: 2012
• summary
  • This book outlines the vision from sustainable architectural firm CommuniTGrow for a template for a future sustainable African city. The first project launching in 2024 is the Milkwood Development in Cape Town:
    • https://milkwoodcity.co.za/

• key finding
  • global temp of 2 Deg C could theoretically result in a billion human deaths
• title: Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
• authors: Joshua Pearce, Richard Pamcutt
• date: aug. 19, 2023

In Peking und den acht chinesischen Provinzhauptstädten wurden in den vergangenen Tagen Rekordtemperaturen gemessen.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/chine-pekin-suffoque-sous-39-degres-un-record-pour-la-periode-20230616_ICAJYWZ3ERBIZDIJHRGIVSZSJQ/

• Title
  • One Billion Happy

• Author

  • Mo Gawdat

• Description

  • Mo Gawdat was former chief business officer at Google X, Google's innovation center.
  • Mo left Google after seeing the rapid pace of AI development was going to lead to a progress trap in which
    • the risk of AI destroying human civilization is becoming real because AI will be learning from too many unhappy people whose trauma AI will learn and incorporate into its algorithms
  • Hence, human happiness becomes paramount to prevent this catastrophe from happening
• See Ronald Wright's prescient quote
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=Q2X5j1pR

• follow up

  • work on stress and happiness

• References

  • https://www.unstressable.com/about-us
  • https://www.amazon.com/Solve-Happy-Engineer-Your-Path/dp/1501157558
  • https://www.onebillionhappy.org/

Visual, F. T., & team, D. J. (n.d.). Covid-19 vaccine tracker: The global race to vaccinate. Retrieved 13 December 2021, from https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker/

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. (2021, September 23). The world has administered 6 billion doses of COVID vaccines to 3.4 Billion people For people waiting for more data before getting the shot The data is in We’ve vaccinated nearly half of all humanity The vaccines are safe [Tweet]. @ashishkjha. https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1440880130331746307

Kreier, F. (2021). ‘Unprecedented achievement’: Who received the first billion COVID vaccinations? Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01136-2

One billion COVID vaccines, psychedelic sensor and COVID transmission halved. (2021). Nature, 593(7857), 13–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01141-5

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police arrested a Russian man suspected of running a money laundering operation involving turning $4 billion from illicit business activities into the digital currency bitcoin, they said on Wednesday.