Links for 2/2/25

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area 

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays

Domenic Priore on The Rise of Counterculture in West Hollywood (video)

Truckin’ From ACS to X Caliber

How to lose your home In a changing climate, the instinct is to save everything you can. But maybe letting go is braver – and better for the future?

Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together

Te Rua-o-te-Moko Fiordland is no place for cruise ships

The Red Nation with John Redhouse: Resource Extraction Brought Hate Crimes to Bordertown

America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future

What a Tunisian exodus says about the future of global migration

Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

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Links for 1/16/25

Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires

‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster

Updates to my book The Divide

Are we drowning out the sounds of the sea?

40″ “Big Board” Complete

Makai Side: A History of Hawaiian Surfing

Our planet is choking on plastic

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

E-waste: Latest threat to beaches

Randy Nauert

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Vintage Ski Movies: Early Snowboard Segment at the Monashees

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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”

Links for 12/22/24

Spotify uses ghost artists to “shape listening behavior” and avoid paying real ones

Navajo Nation Uranium Waste

San Diego band ‘The Unknowns’–on the verge of success in 1981

A Glimpse into the Future: The 2023 Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes in the Context of Longer-Term Climate Change

Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

Argentina cult worships “King” President Milei as peso becomes worthless

Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)

Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network

Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily

John Fullerton: “Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking”

How Plastics Fuel Climate Change

Links for 12/14/24

The Most DISGUSTING BEACH In Northern Ireland (Hidden for 50 years)

Plutocrat Archipelagos

Gregg Carroll

soundethics

The problem-with techno-optimism – How Silicon Valley limits our imagination

Remote Indigenous tribe kills encroaching loggers in Amazon

Surrounded by microplastics: The tiny pollution we drink, eat and breathe

Surrounded by microplastics: The tiny pollution we drink, eat and breathe

5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It | naked capitalism

Capitalism as we know it is over, so what comes next?

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 10/5/24

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 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 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