内容摘要：Fein added that there is a statute, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows tariffs in the event of a national emergency. However, he said, it requires a study by the commerce secretary and can only be imposed on a product-by-product basis.

Fein added that there is a statute, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows tariffs in the event of a national emergency. However, he said, it requires a study by the commerce secretary and can only be imposed on a product-by-product basis.

Earlier this month, Kennedy announced that he hadauthorised Medicaid and Medicare to share private data

with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in building a national database of autistic recipients “to uncover the root causes of autism” – which he considers a “preventable disease” – by September. Above and beyond his other statements, this decisionsmacks of the work of eugenicists from the previous century. Except that state governments across the US and fascist governments like Nazis used such lists to institutionalise those with autism and other disabilities from society. In the US, sterilisation was the method used in an attempt to protect the collective gene pool from contamination, while

Nazi Germany famously used euthanasia. Clearly, Kennedy is an old-style anti-vaccine, ableist and racist eugenicist.

The new eugenics of the 21st century, though, is longtermism. Longtermism is really a 21st-century version of Social Darwinism’s “survival of the fittest” and the eugenics movement it spawned. Longtermism is not specifically about preserving a master white race. Yet longtermism also plays well within the eugenics sandbox. Longtermism’s advocates are at work to save humanity from extinction by making humans better and by making better humans. But this “betterment” comes with two caveats. One is that

– white men like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos, for example – are fittest to act on behalf of future humanity. Two, this requires that they make decisions about whole classes of people whose use of the planet’s resources might lead to humanity’s demise. Billions of present-day humans might ultimately be sacrificed to save humanity’s distant future.Jenny said the team never set out specifically to correct some of the most highlighted errors of the Mercator projection. Subconsciously, though, he said, they knew they wanted their map to better represent historically distorted regions like Africa.

“I would guess any reasonable geographer would support that idea,” the scientist said.Equal Earth rose in popularity after a NASA scientist saw it online right after it was published, and the organisation immediately switched to it.

The World Bank, too, has picked it up. The institution, since 2013, has experimented with different projections, including the Robinson map, but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map.“The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring accurate representation of all people, on all platforms,” a spokesperson told Al Jazeera.