Happy Birthday, Planet Earth: How the World Wishes Itself Another Year of Managed Decline
Global Birthday Wishes: How a Cheap Hallmark Sentiment Keeps the World Spinning By the time the first emoji-laden “HBD 🎂” pings a phone in Auckland, the planet has already rotated enough for a grandmother in Lagos to light the last of 70 candles. Somewhere between those two moments—roughly the span it takes for a Ukrainian…