Day 1,459: bromide

As a result, while leaders offer bromides about sustainable growth, an epic fight for resources rages behind the scenes between those who favour development as practised in decades past and those who want the world’s foreign-aid apparatus to turn wholeheartedly towards decarbonisation.

How misfiring environmentalism risks harming the world’s poor

Artwork of the day 
Drug Store
Edward Hopper
Date: 1927
Style: New Realism
Genre: cityscape
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, US
Dimensions: 101.92 x 73.66 cm

Word of the day 
bromide: a drug used to calm people who are very unhappy or worried

Quote of the day
“It’s not just my imagination—looking at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars really does make me feel calm and hopeful. It’s much better medicine than valerian or bromide. Nature makes me feel humble and ready to face every blow with courage! As”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl