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

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”

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

Voices of the Pacific

Voices of the Pacific unveils the Pacific Islanders’ fight against the rising tide of plastic pollution devastating their environment and way of life, revealing both their grassroots resilience and global advocacy for a sustainable future.

Voices of the Pacific

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

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”