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Delivery Fees: The Environmental Cost of Online Shopping
Everything you see can now be yours with the click of a button: every new shirt scrolled past on Instagram, every new food trend on TikTok. Social media and online shopping have built an algorithm of wanting, and the fastest possible way to satisfy it. Online shopping platforms push products toward consumers with little acknowledgment of the environmental cost on either side of the transaction. As with most technological advances, the focus stays on human convenience, not on
Brandy Sumner
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Daniel Ortega’s government is moving from controlling elections to eliminating them, revealing how authoritarian systems hollow out democracy before discarding it.
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Restrictions of national identity in the USSR and their impact on society
The Soviet Union promised equality among its republics, but repression, deportation, and Russification left political and cultural scars that still shape the region.
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Delivery Fees: The Environmental Cost of Online Shopping
Everything you see can now be yours with the click of a button: every new shirt scrolled past on Instagram, every new food trend on TikTok. Social media and online shopping have built an algorithm of wanting, and the fastest possible way to satisfy it. Online shopping platforms push products toward consumers with little acknowledgment of the environmental cost on either side of the transaction. As with most technological advances, the focus stays on human convenience, not on
Brandy Sumner
3 min read
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