Watching the weather network, with the ads: the fires in Turkey brought to you by Mitsubishi’s new crossover SUV, the Outlander. Literally brought to you by. It’s exactly like an ad for guns showing right after news of a school shooting. See the problem? How can they, the people behind the weather network, can be …
Category: environment
Jul 27 2025
This Changes Everything changed nothing.
This Changes Everything is the most important book ever written. Because it changed nothing. You need to read the book in order to understand my point. And therein lies the problem: people don’t read anymore. Almost half (48.5%) of Americans haven’t read a single book in the past year. And, surprising to me, the U.S. …
Jul 09 2025
Dear Canada: Please stop your fires; the smoke is ruining our summer.
https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf Are you fucking kidding me? “With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.” Right. Bet you can reverse global warming too. Go ahead. Try it. Please. “Our constituents have been limited in their ability to …
Jul 07 2025
from The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A compassionate and frightening and optimistic near future that’s right here and almost right now. There are so many whole paragraphs I wanted to copy … p62, p238, p269 “Things are gonna get so much worse in the years to come. More fires. More floods. More trauma, and that means more of this shit, people …
Jun 26 2025
“Banking on Climate Chaos”
“Last year was the hottest year on record, but that did not stop global banks from walking back climate pledges and significantly increasing fossil fuel financing. Over 65 banks across the world, including CIBC, TD Bank, and Royal Bank of Canada in the top 15, have committed $10.8 trillion to fossil fuel financing since 2016 …
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…)
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