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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Is the decline of oil in sight?    The idea of "peak oil" – a peak in the amount of oil we can physically extract, followed by an irreversible decline in production – has been around for decades. So far, though, it has never been reached on a global level. Last month, however, the International Energy Agency (IEA) – a global energy organisation that provides governments with analyses and policy support – announced we may soon reach a different but related value: a peak in the global use of (or "demand for") oil. The IEA's projections for global oil demand show oil use increasing in the next few years – but growth slowing towards the end of the decade (Source: IEA Oil 2023) Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The Video Game Industry Is Famously Toxic. These Workers Have a Radical Idea to Change It.    On his office desk, Aleksandar Gavrilovic keeps two figurines: Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary, and Josip Broz Tito, the former communist leader of Yugoslavia. Gavrilovic is the founder of the video game company Gamechuck. Based out of a tiny office crammed with computers in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, the company is organized around equality: Each worker earns the same salary and shares the profits of the games they create. All decisions are reached through anonymous voting on Discord: The 17-person collective recently voted to shorten workdays from eight hours to six. And nobody gets fired. (They can technically vote people out, but they try not to.) “We wanted to show that you don’t actually have to work like everyone else to be successful,” said Gavrilovic. Gavrilovic’s company is an outlier in the gaming industry, known for its grueling hours, high turnover rates, and worker discontent. Over the past five years, industry giants such as Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Ubisoft have faced lawsuits over mistreating their employees, while grappling with increasing unionization efforts. Since 2018, around 140 collective actions by game workers—including labor complaints at Nintendo, walkouts at Riot Games, and strikes against Blizzard—have been recorded around the world, according to Game Worker Solidarity, a project that tracks labor movements in the industry. Continued here What is ecotourism? A guide on how to travel sustainably.    If you love nature, you may have tried to plan a vacation where you get to be immersed in it. Maybe you’ve explored a coral reef or visited an elephant sanctuary, or you dream of doing so one day. These activities can fall under the umbrella of ecotourism — a kind of nature-based travel that aims to protect and empower the environment, animals, and local communities — when planning vacations. Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, accounting for 22 million new jobs last year, with a large part of that growth stemming from a post-lockdown itch for travel. As people return to packing as much stuff as humanly possible into a carry-on, ecotourism, too, will likely skyrocket to a market value of $299 billion by 2026. In the last 10 years, travelers have become more environmentally conscious and socially responsible, looking for travel experiences that reflect their morals. There are a few things that complicate ecotourism’s narrative, like the carbon emissions produced by flights, or the challenges of ensuring that a significant degree of profits actually do go to local communities, protecting wildlife, and cultural heritage. Nature-based travel, too, can risk losing the plot, from sanctuaries that operate like petting zoos to the development of tropical coasts into even the most nature-forward resorts. Continued here

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