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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 6/9/25

Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA

The New Military Industry Complex

Lifeblood For Pacific Islands Threatened As Warming Ocean Drives Tuna East

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

Ominous sea level report card for most U.S. coastal communities

Organised Crime: A Top Driver of Global Deforestation

Greenland fossil discovery stuns and worries scientists: “Don’t buy a beach house”

NYC Gangs 1954

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada, Expert Says

Indigenous-led organization breaks ground with revolutionary energy transition initiative: ‘It’s not a one size fits all’

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Links for 1/6/25

The Age of the Double Sell-Out

Colorado landfills generate as much dirty air as driving 1 million cars for a year

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

New UCS Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of Deceit, Implications for Climate Accountability Lawsuits

How We Lost Our Focus (and why it should scare you)

How Hunter-Gatherer Kids Learn Lifelong Skills by Age Six

Revising the cost of climate change: Study yields projections ‘six times larger than previous estimates’

Taking an Internet Walk

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Links for 5/30/25

Together for The Ocean

Teachers warn AI is impacting students’ critical thinking

New Caledonia bans ‘dangerous’ seabed mining for half a century

Greenwashing – the deceptive tactics behind environmental claims

Asia-Pacific Climate Change Impact Assessed in UN Economic Survey

84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

State of the Climate 2024

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes

The King Pins of Albuquerque, NM

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Links for 5/25/25

Revealed: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action

What a Ride: The Wonderful World of Sign Painter Vehicles

Terrifying NASA map shows major California cities set to be underwater in next 25 years

AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented

Degrowth is key to respecting indigenous rights in the Arctic

Less is more: Can degrowth save the world?

Buy from EU

Queensland study prompts calls for 4WD ban on beaches being ‘pummelled to death’

Chewing Gum Releases Thousands of Microplastics Into Our Saliva, Researchers Find

Don’t let machines or the crowd decide your world

Premature Internet Activists

WeHo Arts: Domenic Priore on The Rise of Counterculture in West Hollywood

Video shows just how fire prone Malibu is

Baldy Pipe: 1972 on clay wheels

Decoupling ‘The Good Life’ from Capitalism

We’re Getting Sick of Noise Pollution

Report Reveals How US Taxpayers Are Unwittingly Subsidizing Climate Lies

Debunking common climate change myths | Jeff’s Climate Classroom

Too Much Heat, Past and Present

Blood Money: BMI’s Mushy Press Release Buries The Lede on Google “Investment”

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Links for 5/17/25

Polyglot Gives a Talk to High School Students in Their Native Gen Alpha Language

The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home

NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: ‘Getting faster and faster’

Deep-Sea Mining: World’s Oceans Facing a New Threat

Rich Chew chats about the first Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships in 1965

Jolly Sand

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound

Geoengineering Gone Wrong? Proposed Climate Solution Could Actually Have Dangerous Side Effects

California bill would let insurers, policyholders sue Big Oil for climate disasters

Ultimate Guide To Polarizer Skateboards

Labeled ‘hispanic’

A Dubious Cure for Ocean Plastics

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Links for 4/19/25

Mike Doyle – Surfing Memories – the Early Years

WeHoTV NewsByte: Domenic Priore

The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities

Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025)

The Great Tech Heist – How “Disruption” Became a Euphemism for Theft

Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025)

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

What’s Up Wit’ That? – Tiki Culture

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Austronesian Languages Comparison

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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching

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Links for 4/12/25

AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.

Bangladesh sheds light on climate change migration patterns

Musk ‘Pressured’ Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report

How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry

1 Hour of Peter Thiel Stuttering with Hope core Music to study to that I found on X

What is a ”restoration” and why does your EPS board suck?

Supercritical Flows

Bruce Walker

The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published

Everything you think you know about the tides is wrong (or, at least that’s true for me)

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Links for 3/23/25

Wall Street Trader DEMOLISHES Piers with ONE simple question!!!

Conservation – the Sacred Ocean

Why the idea that the Maya civilization ‘collapsed’ is wrong

Palantir’s Billionaire CEO Just Can’t Stop Talking About Killing People

Wildfire

Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century

The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai

Trickle-Down Streaming Mechanical Royalties Will be Be Up for Discussion

Jay Dee Bryant – Come Summer

No Fakes act would limit replicating voice or likeness of individuals

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Links for 3/8/25

The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 2: Non-Renewable Natural Resources

European alternatives for popular services

“I, a proud member of the U.S. military, won’t obey illegal orders to attack our allies.”

Future Climate Risk Map

Explore Degrowth – Values & Principles

Longtermism: „An odd and peculiar ideology“

Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons

The Enshittocene: How the Internet Got Worse in the 2010s

Ocean Ramsey on what to do in a shark attack

Puncturing the Hubris of Economics

B.C. government affirms Haida Nation title over all of Haida Gwaii in draft agreement

Decades of Public Messages about Recycling in the US Have Crowded Out More Sustainable Ways to Manage Waste

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