Category: environment
May 14 2025
from “Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin
” … the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame. …” “What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful …
Jan 24 2025
Climate Records Broken in 2024
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/12/27/climate-records-broken-2024 (Pity the title. ‘Breaking a record’ sounds like such a good thing, a positive achievement. Should be called ‘Worst Ever’ occurrences or something.)
Jan 24 2025
Chip Manufacturing and Global Warming
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/25/taiwan-struggles-to-reconcile-climate-ambitions-and-chip-manufacturing (There may well be better articles out there, but this one caught my eye…)
Sep 05 2024
The Overstory, Richard Powers
from The Overstory, Richard Powers … eyes toward the wilderness … [He] sees slabs of light through the trunks where there should be shadow all the way to the forest’s heart. … [He investigates then] stumbles back through the curtain of concealing trees … “Have they been clear-cutting, up the valley?” … “Shit, yeah.” “And …
Mar 01 2024
It’s as simple as this – “Polluters do not …”
“Polluters do not deserve to live. That’s the first thing children are taught: Do not foul the life system.” from “Touchdown” by Nancy Kress
Aug 26 2023
Too stupid to live
Forest fires and heat waves all over the planet, so we need all the trees we have to absorb the CO2 that’s causing the forementioned forest fires and heat waves, and this guy cut down godknows how many trees then set fire to them in order to provide meat for those who still eat it …
Jun 12 2023
Great bit from The Onion
https://www.theonion.com/raid-recalls-entire-line-of-insecticide-after-realizing-1828656335
Jan 31 2023
And again, and again …
“… highest population density” (p57, Climate Wars, Harald Welzer) should read “… highest frequency of men fucking women”. “a dramatic rise in population figures” (p63, ditto) should read “a dramatic rise in men fucking women”. I see this again and again and again … This stork/cabbage patch theory of the origin of life. It’s like …
fiction
