Adele, da Londra alla conquista del mondo
E le ha consentito di scalare le classifiche in Norvegia e Regno Unito. Sin da subito è chiaro a tutti che dalle casse dei propri hi-fi esce una voce ricca di sfumature che le consente di muoversi agilmente tra ballad pop e canzini soul tanto da interessare il produttore di Amy Whinehouse Mark Ronson .Laurie E Adkin - News
Nata a Londra e classe 1988 Adele Laurie Blue Adkin è la nuova rivelazione del pop inglese. Non vi dice niente questo lungo nome? Forse se vi dico che in arte si fa chiamare Adele ed è l'autrice di “Rolling in the deep” diventa tutto più chiaro.
Adkin - Socialist Project | The Bullet
Financial Crisis and Ecological Amnesia Laurie E. Adkin
As OECD governments and political parties rush to pour billions of dollars into the generation of more credit to stimulate more consumption, no one seems to be pointing out that only a short time ago, the same governments were insisting that there was no money for a significant reduction of greenhouse gases. There was no money for transition to renewable energy sources. There was, in short, no money to invest in the ecological transformation of our economies. Now, it is as if politicians everywhere have developed a severe case of ecological amnesia. Is there no longer a global warming crisis? A collapse of fish stocks in the oceans? An historically unprecedented rate of extinction of species? Millions of people living without clean drinking water or sanitation? Endemic illnesses caused by ubiquitous toxins? Or any of the other socio-environmental crises that scientists and social ecologists around the world have worked so hard to document and to bring to the public's attention?
Suddenly all that matters is that “consumers” in the rich countries redouble their efforts to over-spend, over-consume, and generate more waste so that the global economy does not remain in recession. And let's not mention that personal debt is a huge problem in North America, as well as a leading cause of the current crisis. Have all these economic experts and politicians had their memories and imaginations surgically removed?
Unbelievably, there is serious talk of handing over billions to the big three auto-makers to restore demand for private vehicles. Are cars not one of the major sources of greenhouse gases that only a short time ago we were, supposedly, trying to discourage people from buying and using? Where are the billions for investment in urban public transportation and rail transportation? In environmentally-sustainable jobs for the thousands of autoworkers who face unemployment due to the short-sighted, profit-maximizing strategies of their employers? Heck, if governments can nationalize banks in a crisis, why can't they buy controlling shares in the auto manufacturers and redesign the plants to produce electric buses, trains, and other pollution-reducing products? The collision between the old “endless growth and consumption” economics and the environmental crisis will not be averted by pouring billions into the old, destructive model. Nor will sustainable livelihoods be created for autoworkers and their children.