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Just how big are Elon Musk and Bill Gates’ carbon footprints? You might be surprised Shares Musk isn’t alone in seeing a significant increase in wealth during a year of pandemic, recession, and death. Altogether, the world’s billionaires saw their wealth surge over $1.9 trillion in 2020, according to Forbes. Those are astronomical numbers, and it’s hard to get one’s head around them without some context. As anthropologists who study energy and consumer culture, we wante...

Musk isn’t alone in seeing a significant increase in wealth during a year of pandemic, recession and death. Altogether, the world’s billionaires saw their wealth surge over $1.9 trillion in 2020, according to Forbes. Those are astronomical numbers, and it’s hard to get one’s head around them without some context. As anthropologists who study energy and consumer culture, we wanted to examine how all that wealth translated into consumption and the resulting carbon footprint. Walking in a ...

The Quebec government announced plans to invest $400 million in Telesat's Lightspeed satellite program.

Amazon vs. Etsy — Which Stock Is the Better Buy? InvestorPlace 2/20/2021 © Source: Shutterstock The Etsy (ETSY) mobile app on a tablet display The pandemic has forced many of us to change the way we shop these days, bringing more and more folks online to carry out their purchases. © Provided by InvestorPlace The Etsy (ETSY) mobile app on a tablet display Evidence for the growing trend was abundant during the holidays. For instance, e-commerce sales reached the $100 billion mark from B...

That superyacht will get ya.

Billionaires have carbon footprints hundreds of times higher than the average American. Two scholars tried to put a number on it.

DKODING Studio From the look of things, it appears that the time for worker unionization in the United States is well on its way, and is traveling fast, even if it has not arrived quite yet. The US economy has been doing differently well for different people for a long time now, a trend hardly surprising because prosperity, like misery, is almost never uniform. However, the differential between the rates of growth of incomes between different classes of people has been nothing short of staggeri...

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3 billion deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Scientists tracking the invisible, odorless danger of methane emissions over Texas say so much gas is escaping it could heat 2 million homes. But the state's governor doesn't want any new restrictions.

Who is Amazons new chief executive? After joining Amazon in 1997 and helping what was then a small online bookseller to expand its catalogue to CDs, Andy Jassy began shadowing Bezos as a technical assistant in the early 2000s. (REUTERS)Premium Aaron Tilley , The Wall Street Journal Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched in 2006, Andy Jassy, who is set to take over as chief executive, has been its chief architect and evangelist Share Via Read Full Story Andy Jassy, the Amazon.com Inc. leader...