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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 8/16/25

You’re Being Watched: The Company Behind America’s Mass Surveillance Takeover

Chapter One: the Fishermen Surfers

Photographer captures America’s vanishing roadside treasures in stunning new book

Inside Google’s plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday

“Outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now,” says philosopher

Torger Johnson

Plastic pollution: Why doing nothing will cost us far more than taking action

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

Book Review: Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World” 

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Links for 8/3/25

Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse

Brian Wilson Obituary

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

Carbon-offset schemes aren’t prepared for forests to burn

Vinyl Minded With the Legends of Surf Guitar

The antidote to the Jaws effect: These photos show a softer side of great white sharks

George Carlin Talks About Anti-War Protests and the John Birch Society in a 1965 Stand-Up Routine

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

Modern Water Wars: Now Compete With Data Centres To Access Water

Geothermal energy potential could power US thousands of times over

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

Wendy Bearer Bull

The origin story of climate denial

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Links for 7/20/25

Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island

Rethinking Ritual: The Shifting Landscapes of Sacred Space in East Polynesia

Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought

Pacific Island Nations Announce Plans for Indigenous-Led Melanesian Ocean Reserve, a World First

To Take Off and Ride a Wave

Jersey Shore town didn’t want mile-long flood wall. It just lost the money for Plan B.

Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education

Lessons from Killer Dana

Now Is the Time

Big Picture Stuff: The Earth is humming. Caused by ocean waves – here’s what it means.

How Colonialism Spawned and Continues to Exacerbate the Climate Crisis

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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 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 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

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Links for 6/29/24

Despite living a walkable distance to a public pool, American man shows how street and urban design makes it dangerous and almost un-walkable

How sets travel across the ocean

Why the world’s oceans are changing colour

The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record

What Is a Steady-State Economy? How Do We Achieve It?

The Unortho_docs | Episode 1 – Richie Jackson

The Ideology of Human Supremacy

Sun Hips

Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

Degrowth: The Vision We Must Demand

Video: Goodbye, snow?

‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl’s hypotheses on the Pacific’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

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Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

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