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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 1/4/25

AI is Shattering Hope of a Net Zero Future

Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, ‘impacting the entire world for centuries to come,’ leading climate scientists warn

AI ‘street Photography’ Isn’t Photography: What We Lose By Simulating Experience

From Marine Reserve to Military Base: Washington and Ecuador’s Quiet Plans for the Galapagos Islands

New York Lightboard Record

Remote island trapped in ‘vortex’ of plastic — and they’re not the ones to blame

Concrete Wave Vol. 13 No. 2 Fall 2014

Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

Ivan Illich on how technologies create radical monopolies

How Degrowth Can Save The World

Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman | TGS 131

College Lecture Series – Neil Postman – “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”

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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 1/27/24

Microplastics, like Asbestos, Can Kill

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Karl von den Steinen

Taiwanese indigenous peoples

20 Major US Cities Most and Least Threatened by Climate Change

Get hip to teenage antics and terms with this handy guide

Native Land Digital

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Climate change solutions need to keep Indigenous knowledge at centre of approach

New Stan Lee documentary raises age-old question: Who created the Marvel Universe?

Bandcamp reportedly union-busting by pressuring record labels

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Links for 12/3/23

COP28: How 7 policies could help save a billion lives by 2100

The end of Elon Musk

American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

Climate conspiracy theories flourish ahead of COP28

Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists

Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

Solomon Islands prime minister says US must respect Pacific leaders

Topic: Economics You Can’t Put a Price on Nature

Fiji prime minister warns against US and China attempts to ‘polarise’ Pacific

CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless

The amazing Hook Island sea monster photos

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

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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 9/18/23

Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck

Earth now way outside “safe operating space for humanity,” says new report

Even Dimming The Sun Wouldn’t Save Antarctica’s Ice Now, Scientists Say

The history of rock and roll poster art

Werner Voss’s Rock’n’Roll Museum

Joyce Carol Vincent: How could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

Column: Is the reign of the surf thugs at Lunada Bay finally coming to an end? Looks like it

Snoop Asks in @hypebot: “How can you get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?”

How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics

Insurer cites “growing catastrophe exposure” as it stops new sales in California

Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires

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Links for 7/9/23

Ray’s Hand

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Loveletters Season 10: Hawaii | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding

Video: Lola Mignot: “Deplacer le Silence”

RFKjr’s anti-vax efforts had a devastating effect on Samoa

Earth’s Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh Right Now, And That’s a Big Problem

A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

Ever-Deepening Vortex of Collapse in Earth’s Ecological Systems

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Links for 4/7/23

How a tax break meant to curb climate change could make it worse

The terrible toll of the cruise ship industry

Last orders? Belgium’s Trappist beers under threat as vocations run dry

All the ways the most common bit of climate misinformation is wrong

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now

Where Did All the Surfable Waves Go?

The Mythical Indigenous Australians Guarding their Rainforest

Lost Albums: Jim Fassett | The Symphony of The Birds

Skategeezer’ Explores Death and Dying in New Book

ENDLESS WAVE:
?Skateboarding, Death & Spirituality

Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific

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