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41 " Today’s self-professed socialists want greater government investment, new and expanded safety nets, a “Green New Deal” to address climate change, and higher taxes on the rich. Bernie Sanders himself makes clear his "
― Fareed Zakaria , Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
42 " When markets shower you with cash, you consider it your just rewards, but when they withdraw their blessings, you holler that the game is rigged. "
43 " As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades. "
44 " War almost always meant taxation, which ended up putting pressure on government to provide more services for its people. One of the reasons that tiny Britain became such a formidable modern state and then built a global empire was that its many conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries helped it develop not only a superb navy but also an impressive fiscal machine. "
45 " The health-care system in the United States is a vast, complex, and expensive one, but it responds to market incentives. Facilities for testing and treatment are concentrated in wealthy areas, forcing people who live elsewhere to find their way to substandard facilities. "
46 " The highly unequal access to health care is part of a larger dynamic of a “pay-to-play” society, in which everything has become dominated by the market. Hospital executives and university presidents are seen not as societal leaders but as CEOs, and are paid to behave like them as well. "
47 " terrorism is the weapon of the weak "
48 " 80 billion animals are slaughtered for meat every year around the world. (And that doesn’t even count fish.) "
49 " Most livestock—an estimated 99% in America, 74% around the world—comes from factory farms. "
50 " The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction. "
51 " The Balkan wars, the Asian financial collapse, the 9/11 attacks, the global financial crisis, and now Covid-19. While they are all different, they have something crucial in common. They are all asymmetric shocks—things that start out small but end up sending seismic waves around the world. "
52 " Even though the roots of the crash lay in the excesses of the private sector, in many countries, people did not move to the left economically; they moved to the right culturally. "
53 " (For at least ten years, the revenues of the video gaming industry have exceeded those of Hollywood and the music business put together.) "
54 " through preparation, early action, and intelligent responses, we can quickly flatten its trajectory. "
55 " mitigate the scale of change and avert its most harmful effects through aggressive and intelligent policies. It will not be cheap. To address it seriously we would need to start by enacting a carbon tax, "
56 " There is pride in good government. "
57 " costs of prevention and preparation are minuscule compared to the economic losses caused by an ineffective response to a crisis. More fundamentally, building in resilience creates stability of the most important kind, emotional stability. "
58 " America is a messy, ragged, unequal country with dramatic strengths and weaknesses. It could be better governed and more equitable, but it remains incredibly strong, at least as measured by traditional metrics of power. What has shifted noticeably in recent years is America’s “soft power”—often defined as its appeal, example, and capacity to set the agenda. "
59 " strong public health systems and those systems need to communicate, learn from, and cooperate with one another. You cannot defeat a global disease with local responses. "
60 " America is, in its DNA, an anti-statist country. The Right comes at it by defunding government. The Left does it by encumbering it with so many rules and requirements that it has a similar dysfunctional effect. As the political theorist Samuel Huntington once explained, power in America is not divided, as is often said, but rather shared and contested, so that you need broad agreement and compromise to get anything done. "