Tuesday morning news drop
Canada’s Housing Supply Shortage: Restoring affordability by 2030 Canada’s Housing Supply Shortages: Estimating that Canada will need an additional 3.5 million units to restore housing affordability. (CMHC)
How many homes do we need to build in Victoria? A recent CMHC report said BC needs nearly a million new homes. We break that down at the local scale (Capital Daily)
Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling. (The Atlantic)
Behind the Scenes, McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis The consulting firm offered clients “in-depth experience in narcotics,” from poppy fields to pills more powerful than Purdue’s OxyContin. (New York Times)
How Americans' Love Of Beef Is Helping Destroy The Amazon Rainforest If the Amazon is to die, it will be beef that kills it. (Washington Post)
Climate Change Is Shifting How Plants Evolve. Seed Banks May Have to Adapt, Too Seed banks are critical for preserving biodiversity and ensuring we'll have food for the future. But they're running up against a rapidly changing world. (Gizmodo)
‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners and subway ceilings, in hotel lobbies and apartment buildings. Their phones are tracked, their purchases are monitored, and their online chats are censored. Now, even their future is under surveillance. (New York Times)
20 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America The long-term outcome of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling is anything but clear right now. But hearing a range of thinkers’ best guesses at where we could go can give us insight into the visions of the country that anti-abortion and pro-abortion groups will be fighting for now that 50 years of Roe v. Wade are firmly behind us. (Politico)
10 ways to fix a broken Supreme Court Democrats don’t have the votes right now for major Supreme Court reform. But if they pick up seats, they could have many options. (Vox)
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America: This was a book about how women in corporate America could—and should—strive to get the most money and the most power. But where should they seek such power? In the crackling hellfire of C-suite America. Is this feminism? (The Atlantic)