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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 for2/9/24

System overthrow – The victory of nature over capitalism (video)

Wired Warriors: The Internet Indians Leading The Fight for Amazonia | Full Documentary

Too Much Heat, Past and Present

I Marc 4

US oil lobby launches eight-figure ad blitz amid record fossil fuel extraction (scientists don’t have the resources)

How The Surfaris’ Wipe Out became a dancefloor hit in remote communities across Australia’s outback

The evolution of the music of California’s pioneer surfers

Icelandic surfers fear port development will ruin ‘perfect point break’

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

The Unknown Giants of the Deep Oceans

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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

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Links for 12/10/23

The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

Plastic bag recycling project gives up the ghost

Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Alain Gardinier

“Kinda Crazy” celebrates the legendary Rip City Skates

If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion

A Tribute to Chet Atkins

The Groovy Imitation Bands of 1960s Japanese Rock

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Links for 11/5/23

Extreme weather in a changing climate

Let’s redefine “Good Surfer”

New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Drought in Amazon reveals rocks with ancient human faces

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

The Videogame Industry is Larger Than Film and TV Combined, Why Aren’t They Paying Musicians Fairly?

A deaf whale is a dead whale

New vehicles a “privacy nightmare” where you consent to carmakers collecting data on behavioral, biological, even sexual activity

Why moving people out of harm’s way isn’t as easy as it might sound

New Zealand becomes first country to ban thin plastic bags for fresh produce from supermarkets

China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

And now the weather: Cloudy with scattered showers of plastic

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Links for 11/4/23

The Environmental Footprint of Bitcoin Mining Across the Globe: Call for Urgent Action

The Dirty Secret Behind the Hydrogen Hype

Why is the world ignoring Acapulco? | Will Bunch Newsletter

The urgent need for methane literacy

Envy’s hidden hand

What will happen to the Greenland ice sheet if we miss our global warming targets

Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas

US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling

DIY Dad Buys a Derelict Fixer-Upper, Restores the Forgotten 1920s General Store He Finds Inside It

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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

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Links for 9/10/23

Carbon Cash Machine: Meet the Investors Running – and Destroying – Our World

National Science Foundation’s new center connects Indigenous wisdom with Western science | Boing Boing

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

Saving the Planet One Plant-Based Burger at a Time: 6 Environmental Benefits of Veganism

Why the Humble City Bus Is the Key to Improving US Public Transit

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

The Tielman Brothers History

AI and the American Smile

Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

The Guy who Shrunk his 1950s Hometown

Exxon Predicted Oil Burning Role in Climate Change

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Links for 7/15/23

Climate Denialism Has Burnt To a Crisp

Who is responsible for the climate crisis?

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity

‘The Job Is Going to Die’: Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry

Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline – Surf’s First Wave

Shifted Banks | Slade Lawrence

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate

Infants Exposed to Excessive Screen Time Show Differences in Brain Function Beyond Eight Years of Age

Step Back in Time: The Forgotten Family Shoe Store Closed for 40 Years

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