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?

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

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

Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

Links for 1/21/24

Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023

A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts

Are UFOs Really Out There?

The Music Industry is Dying…and That’s a Good Thing

Frozen in Time: Inside Bangkok’s First Ever Department Store

Meet the former pilot working to reduce climate pollution from planes

South-east Australia marine heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale

‘They’re destroying us’: Indigenous communities fear toxic leaks from Canada oil industry

Big Oil’s favorite way to lie: paltering

Links for 5/10/23

The Real History of the Luddites (Audio)

They ride exact replicas of Tom Blake’s 1920s wood surfboards

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

A Warning On the Future of Music: with Author Ted Gioia

Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on

Signs directing public access to Malibu beach only last eight days

Up to 70% of California beaches could disappear by end of the century

Meet the Surfing Girls of Iran

Nan Madol

Exxon just made record profits, also knew even more about climate change than we realized

Links for 9/9/23

The Black Cloud + audio book

Die schwarze Wolke

‘They Will Never Change on Their Own’: Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions

‘Pulp Fiction’ music consultants open up about the friendship, mixtapes that helped start a soundtrack revolution

Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?

Australian authorities warn locals to stay away from the mysterious metal cylinder on the beach

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

Tiki Mugs at Mount Longboards (New Zealand)

Finding the First Americans

Links for 6/25/23

Manhattan Beach, California, 1950s

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

Vicious Accelerating Feedbacks Between Far Right Politics and Climate Catastrophe

Rich people must allow access to a public beach

George Monbiot’s Regenesis — you won’t think about dinner the same way again

D-Day’s Historic Beaches Face a New Onslaught: Rising Seas

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?

‘High amounts’ of flesh-eating bacteria and ocean plastics create ‘perfect pathogen storm’ in Florida seaweed

Why The IndieWeb?

Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says

Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore – “Superthunderstingcar”

Links for 6/24/23

Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

A Deep Dive Into Polarizer Skateboards

‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat

Chris Isaak’s Former Beach Property Becoming a Public Park

Desire to Kill the Streetcar

Rapid changes in cryosphere demand urgent, coordinated action

Rising seas challenge modern notions of property lines

Ever Wondered Why Americans of the 1930s and 40s Spoke with an Accent?

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery