Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
What does an AR-15 do to a human body? A visual examination of the deadly damage. (N. Kirkpatrick, Atthar Mirza, Manuel Canales / Washington Post)
The carnage is rarely visible to the public. Crime scene photos are considered too gruesome to publish and often kept confidential. News accounts rely on antiseptic descriptions from law enforcement officials and medical examiners who, in some cases, have said remains were so unrecognizable that they could be identified only through DNA samples.
As Sakran put it: “We often sanitize what is happening.”
The Washington Post sought to illustrate the force of the AR-15 and reveal its catastrophic effects.
UK government’s “green day” electric car policies will sacrifice the Global South for transition minerals (Hannah Sharland / Canary)
Ultimately, however, this is green capitalism operating as intended. Economic anthropologist Professor Jason Hickel highlighted how the shift to electric vehicles will render the Global South a “sacrifice zone”
In his book Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, he argues that Global North governments’ emphasis on electric vehicles will “exacerbate an already existing crisis of overextraction.”
Furthermore, he stated that in the regions where corporations exploit key mineral resources “some countries may become victims of new forms of colonisation.”
What if gun control could work? (John Oliver)
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