“The disruption to the commons that followed Christopher Columbus’ initial journey dled to the death of 56 million Indigenous people by 1600 …” p13 “The total compensation to Indigenous people amounted to pennies per acre for Native territories … The treaty procedure was propelled by threats of war, forced removal, and simply taking the land …
Category: environment
Jul 12 2026
from When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
“…as someone whose sexuality so far had expressed itself as ‘possibly asexual or maybe just unimpressed with the local talent’ …” p187 “Jody Bannon was worth, what, a couple hundred billion dollars? Think about how much money that is. He could have spent a million dollars a day, on anything, and it would still take …
Jul 07 2026
from Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think lke a 21st century economist, Kate Raworth
too long to copy, but a great synopsis of neoliberal economics in the form of a stageplay with characters – p59-61 ditto, the alternative – p62-3 “How productive would your workforce be if it hadn’t been toilet trained?” Alvin Toffler p69 “if women were paid the going hourly rate for eac of their roles—switching between …
Jan 17 2026
“What is the point of countries when …”
“What was the point of countries when civilization was only a generation away from extinction?” from Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds We aren’t that rational though. So we’ll have national wars right up to the end. We’ll be putting money into winning–nothing. Money that could have gone into surviving. Ditto sports. And entertainment.
Dec 09 2025
Trump deletes climate data
Unfuckingbelievable that the President of the U.S. would delete climate data and shut down the NOAA database. Many MANY thanks to the people who made the save possible. https://grist.org/extreme-weather/trump-killed-a-crucial-disaster-database-this-nonprofit-just-saved-it/
Oct 19 2025
Exposing the IPCC
Just finished reading Donna Laframboise’s expose of the IPCC, The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert. Laframboise is a Canadian journalist, not an American climate denier, and yes, the book did lower my esteem for the IPCC. But that doesn’t mean that its conclusions (such as CO2 warms the atmosphere, …
Sep 18 2025
…with Alberta’s help
I once said that Trump was going to single-handedly destroy Earth. I was wrong. Alberta’s going to help. (I guess Danielle Smith hasn’t read Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything.)
Sep 07 2025
“… getting exponentially worse …
from Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Donella Meadows et al. 2004 “Scientists do know that there have been temperature upheavals on earth in the past … “But the most important message … is that current atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are far higher than they have been for 160,000 years. … There …
Aug 28 2025
from The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (1972)
“‘You and your ancestors treated the world like a fucking great toilet bowl.’” p112 “‘The rich countries have ruined what they own, so they’re out to steal from the people who have a little left. They want the copper, the zinc, the tin, the oil. And of course there’s the timber, which is getting scarce.’” …
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