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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

Links for 11/10/24

Pella Thiel: “Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”

A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality

SkateBoarder Magazine – Vol. 1, No. 1

Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush / Black Box Biotech P1/2

Further cliff damage In Bali’s idyllic Uluwatu concerns residents, tourists and surfers

Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Solution to the Climate Crisis

Go back in time at JFK’s refurbished TWA terminal

Understanding Chechnya’s Strange Ban on Music That’s Either Too Fast or Too Slow

A Rapid Transition To Renewable Energy Is Possible. Uruguay Proved It

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Links for 11/3/24

The Energy Collapse | Louis Arnoux

Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

What harmful microbes are lurking in the world’s 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste?

How Peter Sellers Fully Embodied Inspector Clouseau in the ‘Pink Panther’ Film Franchise

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

Can Technology Save Humanity From Social Collapse?

Retired Plumber Talks About His Love for Extreme Beachcombing
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Links for 10/20/24

Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths

Holding the California Oil Industry Accountable

Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms

A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

History of Hobie Skateboards (Explained) | Concrete Waves

What Happened To Longboarding? (Industry Report)

What Greenland’s nine-day mega-tsunami tells us about climate change

‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farms

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Locals in Imsouane under threat by mega resort development

Kapitän Harmsen – Adios, Kopenhagen!

Shocking Wake-Up Call: First Marine Fish Declared Extinct Due to Humans

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Links for 10/5/24

The Plastic Crisis | Jane van Dis

Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime

The surfer and tribal chief fighting to save a 550km South African coast

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself”

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Find out how illegal miners in the Amazon use Elon Musk’s internet to evade surveillance

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

Community attempts to use sand to stop the ocean and fails

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades yet deceived the public, report reveals

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Links for 9/15/24

Degrowth Can Support Business Sustainability 

Murder Offsets

How sets travel across the ocean – & orbits and other stuff

Climate change is really messing with the beaches chemistry. Alarming bacteria growth is happening.

Noxious Disinformation. Climate: The Movie

Jennifer Wilkins explains what the degrowth movement is about, and how degrowthers see the world

Marina Carbonell – “Gostos Demais”

Plastic Recycling Is a Scam w/ Dharna Noor

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Links for 9/7/24

A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

A Brief History of South American Surf Rock

What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

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Links for 8/4/24

The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate

History of Wind Power

The end of cloud computing

Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable

The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity

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Links for 7/20/24

AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

The father of Chicano art photography

These States Are Actually Aiming for More Pedestrians to Die On Their Roads This Year — Streetsblog USA

Berlin In The Summer of 1957 by Willy Pragher

permacomputing

A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism

Gremmie Skateboards

“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change

New research supports Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on South Americans in the Pacific

Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide

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Links for 7/13/24

In ‘Kiosk,’ Visit the Tiny Disappearing Urban Shops of Eastern Europe

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Hawai‘i Gov. Josh Green signs bill banning seabed mining in state waters | Kauai Now

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica

The Simpler Way

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

The economics of enough: Dan O’Neill at TEDxOxbridge

Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like

Mike Doyle – Surfing Memories – the Early Years

The New Jersey Review of Beach Trash

The US Is Ugly. THIS is Why.

Marshall Brain: This is the worst possible time for “climate change optimism” | WRAL TechWire

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Links for 6/29/24

Despite living a walkable distance to a public pool, American man shows how street and urban design makes it dangerous and almost un-walkable

How sets travel across the ocean

Why the world’s oceans are changing colour

The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record

What Is a Steady-State Economy? How Do We Achieve It?

The Unortho_docs | Episode 1 – Richie Jackson

The Ideology of Human Supremacy

Sun Hips

Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

Degrowth: The Vision We Must Demand

Video: Goodbye, snow?

‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl’s hypotheses on the Pacific’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

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