by Zachary A. Marx • • Comments Off on Compassion In A Time Of Distress
As I sit here, as safe as I can be in isolation while the coronavirus pandemic rages on, it’s easy to think about parallels to the economic crisis of 2008. So far, The Great Recession has been the defining moment of my…
by Zachary A. Marx • • Comments Off on Essentially Non-Essential: Maintaining Humanity In A Crisis
I first started thinking about this post last week while watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. On the show, Oliver played a clip of an Amazon warehouse worker complaining about having to come into work (especially in unsafe conditions, thanks…
by Zachary A. Marx • • Comments Off on Climate Change and Corona
Here’s a little experiment. I will list out a series of problems, and tell me if I’m talking about climate change, or the corona virus: Scientists warned us about the problem ahead of time, and were largely ignored until it…