Humanitarian Unknown 053.
1. Meet the Mega-Donors of the Future
"In a recent Bank of America study of 1,007 high-net-worth donors, 88% of younger donors ages 21-43 said they share their parents’ commitment to giving back, while 80% of overall donors polled said they take a different approach than the previous generation. Today’s young donor is more likely to use giving vehicles such as charitable trusts, family foundations, and donor-advised funds than older funders, the study found."
Meet your future donor.
From Stephanie Beasley and Eden Stiffman .
2. When I Lost My Intuition
"For years, I practiced medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t".
On living, with a doubt at one's side.
Wonderful piece from Ronald W. Dworkin.
3. Oil Companies: Dropping Renewable Goals, Expanding Fossil Fuels
"Last week, BP announced that it was slashing more than $5B in planned green energy investments. It was a marked departure from the early 2000s, when the oil giant branded itself as 'beyond petroleum' (...) 'Today, we have fundamentally reset BP’s strategy,' said BP’s CEO, Murray Auchincloss. 'This is a reset BP, with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value'."
Tik Root reports.
4. The Bulldozing Mayor Remaking "Africa’s Capital"
"To some, she is a saviour, rehousing the poor and beautifying Ethiopia’s capital. To others, she is the 'bulldozing mayor', destroying shanties in line with the messianic vision of her boss, PM Abiy Ahmed. Adanech Abebe, the first female mayor of Addis Ababa – home to 6M people and the HQ of the African Union – is at the heart of a storm over the modernization of one of the continent’s great cities."
From Andres Schipani.
5. WFP Halves Food Rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh
"Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, the refugee relief and repatriation commissioner of Bangladesh, said Rohingya refugees had already been 'barely surviving' with the existing monthly food ration. He said: 'Cutting the ration over half will have a horrible impact on refugee health and nutrition. Children and women will bear the brunt of this cut, as they make up about 78% of the refugee population here.'"
Kaamil Ahmed and SHaikh Azizur Rahman report.
6. The New Control Society
"In the same way that the industrial age called forth a political science of management, we need a political science for the age of the protocol. We need to conceptualize new ways of asserting agency, new ways of finding both “exit” and “voice” in malfunctioning systems, ways of embedding protocols in the kinds of human communities that can generate legitimacy and accountability, ways of fighting the complexity and obscurity that can hide the exercise of power."
The long read. From Jon Askonas .
7. Here’s Why You Should Never, Ever Drink the Rain
"Over time, these modern-era substances – which famously take decades to millennia to degrade – have leached into the environment, reaching every corner of the planet, no matter how tall or deep. Microplastics, PFAS, and some other compounds, such as pesticides, are now so widespread that they’ve essentially become part of our biome, not unlike bacteria or fungi. They’re so common, in fact, that they’re even found in the rain."
From Benji Jones .