“But CEQA reform is necessary in order to solve the housing crisis.”
I'm glad that there are CA Democrats finally willing to take the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) head on. CEQA has been so weaponized and badly abused by numerous special interest groups that it needs to be massively reformed. Nipping around the edges isn't going to cut it. I'd even go so far that CEQA should be gutted.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/20/environmental-law-california-unions-housing/
When #Life Gives You #Asteroids, Start An #Agricultural #Revolution : Medium
How To Develop An #Abundance #Mindset That Fuels #Career Growth : Forbes
#Tiger turnaround as #Populations grow in #India ($) : Nature
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
"What if instead of trying to figure out if one or five is the better choice with infinite variations and philosophical arguments, we just fix the trolleys? This is the core insight of what I call Moral Abundance—the idea that technological and material progress can eliminate moral dilemmas entirely."
I'm seeing a lot of inspiring thinking lately. Here's some of it.
#abundance #affirmations related to work, earning, success:
"I am capable of earning what I deserve."
"My skills and talents are valuable."
"I am worthy of success."
"I embrace opportunities to grow and thrive."
"I am learning and growing everyday."
Abundance: Big Tech’s Bid for the Democratic Party
The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.
https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/
“Fuck all the fucking oligarchies that are trying to run this country.”
Prepare for the jubilance of Beltane with our exclusive Abundance and Creativity Gemstone Bracelet Set. These three elastic bracelets are made with orange aventurine, green aventurine, and gold thread jade, specially chosen to help get those creative juices flowing.
https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com/products/abundance-and-creativity-gemstone-bracelet-set-for-beltane
#Creativity #Abundance #Beltane #Bracelet #Aventurine #Jade #Crystal #Mineral #Gemstone #Magick
@grimm @Krautreporter #Rechte siegen überall und nichts funktioniert? Buchkritik zu Derek Thompson und Ezra Klein #Abundance, eine Antwort auf #Trump und #AfD? Geschenklink. https://krautreporter.de/politik-und-macht/5807-das-ist-eine-wirklich-neue-antwort-auf-trump-und-die-afd?shared=086b2ee5-91aa-4f92-b0d3-7d19254fe65f&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=member-url
Jeremiah Burroughs, Puritan preacher, considers the persecution of Christians. Some have had to endure rages and tortures of wicked men: this is a passive obdedience. Burroughs encourages those not chosen into an active obedience: considering their sufferings and worshipping God.
Christians today have not always had sympathy for persecuted Christians, such as those from Syria.
How can you give God the glory of your strength?
#christian #history #abundance #begenerous #sermonnote
My latest in Bloomberg CityLab: Applying "abundance" to transportation requires considering the kind of infrastructure that gets built, not just the quantity.
More trains and bike lanes would be great -- more highways and robotaxis not so much.
Move fast, break things: A review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
"What the two of them so effusively believe about growth is more or less what I think about redistribution. Which is to say: when you redistribute wealth, you in fact hasten a present that is radically different from the one we currently know.
In an unequal society where the majority must invest the lion’s share of their time and energy into the labour required to obtain the bare necessities of life, individuals lose much in the way of personal freedom and life satisfaction. But we also collectively sacrifice unfathomable quantities of human creativity and potential. There might be abundant growth, but that can matter very little if its fruits aren’t broadly shared.
Redistribution does not equal, as Klein and Thompson assert, a mere “parceling out of the present.” In a very difference sense than theirs, it represents its own agenda of abundance — one reflecting the richest egalitarian ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. The liberalism of the 21st might reject those ideas, but many of us on the left still see them as indispensable. Socialism, contrary to what many of its critics have historically claimed, is first and foremost concerned with human freedom: freedom to think, freedom to dream, freedom to create, freedom to live unburdened by toil
(...)
Klein and Thompson appear to believe distributional questions can be mostly elided if enough new technology is invented and a sufficient quantity of stuff is built and produced. Contentious debates about degrowth aside, I find this assertion vastly more improbable and utopian than the project of universal social welfare or the realization of social and economic rights. Scientific and technological innovations can be hugely beneficial, but until we live in the world of Star Trek: The Next Generation it’s unlikely they will ever compensate for the dearth of social and economic justice."
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue in their book to take environmental protections back to what they were during the Civil War in case you're interested in what this new discussion on #Abundance is about.
#carbon #sufficiency #abundance #Environment #Health
How to build a world around sufficiency or "frugal abundance"
https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-world-around-sufficiency
Once again, we do not have an #abundance problem, we have a #greed problem.
As a tax payer in the #USA I sincerely believe we will find peace and security far sooner by funding #vaccines than the #Israeli #warmachine.
Well...we will never find it the latter way but you all know what I meant.
Our government is somehow less able to do shit than all the places so far left that they have universal health care. This proves our failures are not due to strong unions or caring more about people and the environment. We must learn from European processes and make the public sector something that people think will do big and great things for taxpayers, so they'll vote for it. That's how they justify spending the money over there. #uspol #Abundance
https://pca.st/b6t8tums
Abundance Isn't Going to Happen Unless Politicians Are Scared of the Status Quo
https://inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/abundance-isnt-going-to-happen-unless
Where are my fellow Deepak Chopra fans? This was a fun listen.
'The Metaphysics of Money: 7 Laws of Abundance"
"Ultimately, the book seems fine to me. I’d say the policy specifics are a bit of a retread, but that’s not really a critique: the authors never claim novelty and the book itself is literally a retread of some articles they wrote for The Atlantic and The New York Times. It’s a pop policy book written for a Malcolm Gladwell type of audience, which is a valuable thing for a political movement to have. In short, I think the pique over the book is out of proportion to what the book is.
With that said, the broader Abundist world that the book is attempting to push forward — a world that appears to be teeming with libertarians, right-wing Democrats like Jared Polis and Ritchie Torres, refugees of the effective altruist implosion, and tech sector types — does seem like it could head in some pretty bad directions that Abundance would fit naturally into. But this would not be the fault of Klein and Thompson."
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundance-agenda/
"It's because of China alone, really, that the entire world now has an abundance of cheap manufactured goods, from gadgets to air conditioners, and increasingly higher-end items like cars. But it hasn't significantly redounded to the benefit of Chinese shareholders. There's been a bit of a rally lately, but mostly it's been pretty dead money.
I think there is a sense in which successful efforts like China’s Made in 2025 initiative can be understood as an Operation Warp Speed policy across several key industries that have managed to harness private initiative but also made it so that private industry keeps plowing those profits back into more research and investment, leaving little left over for the shareholder.
And so what I worry about when I read Thompson and Klein talk about Operation Warp Speed is that they're right, and that this kind of public-private interplay is necessary for actual abundance, but that the US economy, as it operates, can't withstand the sustained, costly investment necessary for it to work; that our existing economic model has too much riding on a perpetual rise in the value of financial assets and that this would be threatened if profits keep having to get reinvested for the public good.
And that, therefore, what reads like a happy, wonky replication of a successful endeavor actually amounts to a dramatic rethinking of our political economy that would require a tremendous amount of will on both sides of the aisle, and a totally new way of establishing broad-based economic stability. It might be good and necessary, but getting there is a political project far beyond getting liberals to see things through a new lens."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-24/i-want-to-believe-in-abundance
