Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

"Spain has a magnificent primary care system, but its hospitals have been hit by a decade of austerity since the financial crisis. It has  only a third of the hospital beds per capita  that are provided by Austria or Germany. Yet that is still more than the UK, New Zealand or the US." How did Spain get its response so wrong?

The fish: "Hello, darling! How are you?" The dog: "Good, but I'm very thirsty!" The fish: "What would you like to drink?" The dog: "The tears of those people who dreamt to live off rents and airbnb."

Factory farming, globalised industry and rapid urbanisation

Comrade Britney Spears?

Nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation

'As if we were the disease'

Look at the bright side of life: - A drop in air pollution - A drop in wastage - A drop in consumerism (shopoholcolism, mass tourism, etc) - A drop in other types of pollution: noise, littering, "anti-social behaviour" ... - A drop in extracting more wealth from poor countries for capital accumulation and to provide affordable goods in the rich countries. Hopefully, there will be social pressure to invest more on health infrastructure and the well-being of the majority—the working people, the precariat, etc). Maybe it's an opprotunity to change "our way of life". But I am not too optimistic like this writer , for example.