When did public health stop asking who's pushing people in in the river?
The upstream-downstream metaphor was always about corporate power.
Somewhere along the way, "pushed" became "fell" - and that shift lets the 'manufacturers of illness' off the hook
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New Australia Institute research shows that state and federal governments will provide $16.3 billion in subsidies in 2025/26 to some of the biggest, most profitable companies in Australia, an increase of 9.4 per cent on last financial year.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bmdAaP
Alcohol Forum Ireland has produced a new short new video exposing the predatory tactics of the alcohol industry - worth watching & sharing (good for teaching too!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=911_...
#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Alcohol #WomensRights #PublicHealth
@paulaleonard.bsky.social
WATCH: Think 15-Minute City conspiracy theorists are just unhinged tin-foil hat nut jobs ranting about global overlords? Well, drop everything and watch this hard-hitting story by the @thedailyshow.com to be proven… um… #UrbanTruth
Congrats @culdesac.bsky.social
(ps, walkable cities can have cars)
The UK will begin a review of lobbying rules, which critics say allow alcohol and other harmful product producers--and other narrow interests--undue influence over government policy.
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If you checked out our URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE website when we first launched 2 weeks ago, you saw some empty pages. It will be “under some construction” for a while, and we dont mind that at all. But its got a lot more in it now, so we invite you to check it out again. www.urbantruthcollective.com
“I’m not going to beat around the bush. This book is about evil.”
“It’s about the mundane, humdrum, self-assured, self-justifying, pocket-lining, smug & arrogant lies & disinformation that communications ‘professionals’ spread daily.”
Read #DarkPR by our own @grantennis.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
Adam Serwer coins a new word for the "mixture of gullibility and cynicism prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements" identified by Hannah Arendt.
He calls it 'gullicism.'
This is a thought-provoking piece about snake oil salesmen and why even smart people fall prey to them..
Gift link.
Or walking
"Cities designed to work for neurodivergent people can make cities better for everyone ... Pedestrian-friendly streets with green space, calmer soundscapes and predictable layouts reduce the stress of city life for everyone" @brenttoderian.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
Excellent paper and framing
Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Important piece on 'evidential landscaping', conflicts of interest and limitations in the evidence base, in research on digital technologies and health
"Access, not movement per se, should be the overarching goal of transportation policy"
- @gregshill.com @jonathanlevin13.bsky.social
@urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @keawilson.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social
🔔 NEW
Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm
✍️ Kate Gray, Grant Ennis, Greg Fell
OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag026
I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.
michael-k-goff.github.io/2024-10-26-m...
A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested.
Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%!
yle.fi/a/74-20214134
“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”
We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth
“Electrification has been touted as a silver bullet: an easy solution that alleviates the GHG burden from car owners worldwide. This isn’t the case. Extensive vehicle electrification only lowers emissions by a portion of what’s needed.” Via @wrirosscities.bsky.social
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"In all cases, vehicle collisions decrease during periods of increasing fuel prices"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @brenttoderian.bsky.social
Here are the 5 THINGS the Study suggests we should focus on for reducing POPULATION-LEVEL DRIVING.
(important STUDY co-authored by our own @grantennis.bsky.social, we might add) #UrbanTruth
