“The 2008 Bank Bailout Cost More Than Has Been Spent On NASA Since It Was Started In 1959.” - Chris

“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo

“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html

Illustration by John Holcroft

"Rather than resorting to foxes and hedgehogs (a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing), I tend to think about modern scientists as either the drillers of ever-deeper holes (now the dominant route to fame) or scanners of wide horizons (now a much diminished group). I have always preferred to scan as far and as wide as my limited capabilities have allowed me to do so." ― Vaclav Smil, author of How the World Really Works.

Artwork by Jennifer Davis.

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

www.etsy.com/listing/1756964083/george-orwell-1984-wall-art-dystopian

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. - Susan Sontag

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Illustration: Julia Pott

Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook

Image from https://stemcell.eco/

“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann

Illustration by Ture Ekroos

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.