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  "Projections for future carbon removal are unrealistically optimistic. Some climate scenarios project removing 10–30 billion metric tons of CO₂ annually by 2100 – a roughly 5,000- to 15,000-fold increase from today – with no scientific justification." https://drawdown.org/insights/heres-why-assuming-massive-growth-in-carbon-removal-is-reckless-and-unwarranted

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  "A farmer in a village may produce safe and ecological food, yet that food may never reach the plates of people in the same village. Instead, it may travel to the tables of wealthy and upper-middle-class consumers in cities. The price is higher, the market is limited and distribution often depends on specialised outlets, supermarkets and premium food stores." https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/319835/the-colonial-face-of-safe-agriculture

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  Lula! Lula! Lula! Lula! On this wonderful day when the beautiful Brazilian people gave such a gift to the world, we must rejoice. The fascists are stoppable. The extreme right are beatable. Hate and greed ultimately burns itself.

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  "The manosphere has built a rhetoric that demonizes stepping in to stop an assault or defending a survivor as ultimate violations of the “bro code,” which risks instant exile from masculine society. This effectively converts peer pressure into complicity, teaching young men to prioritize loyalty to the male circle over basic morality and advocacy." https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/23/the-cornell-7-and-the-machinery-of-male-impunity/ This is nothing new. This is modern, civilized...

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  "Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Janoo has advocated for “degrowth,” an economic approach that calls for reducing production and consumption in some sectors rather than pursuing economic growth as a primary goal." Is this a first? https://vermontdailychronicle.com/janoo-backs-degrowth-calls-for-less-production-consumption-in-new-economic-model/

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  "Nvidia says its new data center design will fix AI's water problem" And if you believe that ... Big Tech are gangsters and the ultimate liars. Whatever "fix" Nvidia is proposing, you can be sure it will be extremely damaging to our environment. There is no "fix" for Big Tech. They are super greedy consumers of energy, water and materials. At their very essence, they are devourers.

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  UN warns of global water bankruptcy as AI data centers strain groundwater, Hayeon Jeon, DongA Science, 2026 https://www.dongascience.com/en/news/78150 Droughts are transforming the Turkish landscape with massive sinkholes, Katie Nadworny, BBC, 2026 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260624-droughts-are-transforming-the-turkish-landscape-with-massive-sinkholes Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown, Rachel Salvidge, The Guardian, 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environmen...

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  "Modern industrial agriculture has been described as a method of using soil to turn petroleum and gas into food." "Approximately 1,500 liters (350 gallons) of oil equivalents are required to feed each person in the United States each year, and every calorie of food produced requires on average ten calories of fossil-fuel inputs. This is a food system profoundly vulnerable, at every level, to fuel shortages and skyrocketing prices. Both are inevitable." Richard Heinberg http...

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  The bitcoin and blockchain gangsters are every bit as evil and depraved as you think they are Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8eqyj8e2o

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  On the day that Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, died at 90, it's worth noting why computer programming became so dominated by men. It wasn't remotely because men were better than women at programming. It was because, as soon as men realized how important programming was, they bullied and intimidated women out of the profession. And then smiled smugly and said: "Women can't program". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx5yn46j41zpo

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  "All four are women or women-led groups, and the foundation presented its choice as a statement about who holds power. “A system built to serve the few was never going to hold,” Ole von Uexkull, Right Livelihood’s executive director, said in the announcement. “This year, we honor women who refused to wait for permission. They are rewriting the rules that autocrats, patriarchs, and Silicon Valley’s most powerful men assumed were theirs to write alone.” https://www.fiercebymitu.com/p/these-f...

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  In old European symbolism, black was the color of life, Earth and fertility of the soil. The snake was the symbol of vitality, life energy and regeneration. It was feminine-oriented. What we know of as Western Civilization is built on the macho warrior God bent on destroying everything he can't control. It is a culture of violence. Modern Europe was born and reared in an orgy of war and torture. And so we face the ultimate environmental collapse driven by this Western cultural mindset

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  Western Civilization is the core driver of environmental collapse "Our current climate crisis has emerged from systems that granted colonial and capitalist powers dominion over nature. Overcoming this crisis requires recognizing that all beings are relatives and that caring for the land, water, and territories is a shared responsibility." Climate justice, therefore, requires reparations and direct investment in Indigenous-led solutions. https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/jequitin...

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  Want a real transition? Shift the debate away from an energy transition narrowly focused on batteries, extraction, and global consumption toward a transition grounded in inter-species commitments, territorial responsibility, and reparation for colonial injustices. Human life depends on the life of other beings. Dignity cannot remain an exclusively human privilege. It must be extended to waters, forests, mountains, animals, plants, and all beings that sustain web of life. https://www.culturalsur...

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  "A corporate gold rush along the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is taking land from Indigenous communities and polluting vital water sources. Yet, where global corporations expected little resistance, a powerful movement is growing, led by local women demanding accountability and environmental justice." https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/victims-voices-women-lead-cross-border-fight-land-rights-against-mining-giants

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  "Data centers can increase environmental electromagnetic field (EMF) levels through the power lines, substations, transformers, and electrical distribution systems that supply them, as well as through internal equipment that generates extremely low frequency (ELF) fields, power quality distortion and harmonics (“dirty electricity”), electromagnetic interference. EMFs are linked to cancer, miscarriage, Alzheimer’s and other health impacts." https://ehsciences.org/ai-data-center-health-...

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  "Communities of our ancient hunter gatherer forebears were likely egalitarian in nature and so matriarchal in social structure. Such societies are based upon maternal values, exhibiting as caretaking and nurturing negotiation-oriented communities, for women and men alike; a reality giving substance and form to the maligned mythology of a Golden Age of Matriarchy. Which only begs the question – What would our society be like if only we could escape the patriarchal rule?" https://www.anc...

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  A Texas woman is fighting to preserve land that was supposed to become a public park. Now it may be a data center instead “My daddy passed this land down to us and he told us to guard this land,” she said. “He said this will always be a homestead.” “My family was willing to stand up for this community and help this community because that’s what we’re supposed to do as neighbors,” Griffin said. “We all neighbors. We supposed to take care of each other.” https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/us...

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  “This is not conservation – it’s a cartel.” Unique Indigenous gathering issues hard-hitting landmark declaration “Conservation must be led by Indigenous Peoples, because we know better.” "A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including those grabbed for parks and wildlife sanctuaries, be returned.” https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/14565

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  The Hidden Water Consumption of Swiss Data Centers “The risk of drought in Switzerland will increase in every season.” Swiss data center "operators are neither obliged to disclose their water use nor subject to any specific rules governing their approach to water utilization. Therefore, they have no obligation to comprehensively track their consumption, use water efficiently, or make their consumption public." https://algorithmwatch.ch/en/hidden-waterconsumption-datacenters/

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  Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/datacenters-pollution-electronics

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  "A lithium-ion battery tossed into the wrong bin can travel unnoticed until a compactor, shredder or sorting machine punctures it. By then, the person who discarded the battery is gone, the manufacturer is far removed and the recycling operator is left fighting the fire." https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2026/09/21/who-should-pay-for-lithium-ion-battery-fire-damage/

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  On September 18, 2026, the BESS facility at Moss Landing caught fire for the 5th time https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/moss-landing-power-plant-fire-september-18-2026-shelter-in-place/ A solar/battery energy storage system (BESS) fire on Prince Edward Island, Canada has burned for two weeks. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/fire-at-summerside-solar-farm-still-active-as-city-province-monitor-conditions/ar-AA2crIsD There are growing challenges posed by lithium-ion battery fires ab...

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  "In the United States, nearly 5,000 data centers are either under construction or in planning stages, driven by growing demands for artificial intelligence computing power. By 2030, these facilities will require approximately 100 gigawatts of new energy capacity. Servers within these centers are replaced every 2 to 5 years, and by 2030, discarded equipment is expected to generate up to 13 million tons of waste annually." https://inkorr.com/en/obsagi-elektronnogo-smitta-zrostut-utrici-...

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  "Like so many other men in the Epstein circle, Pinker has rushed to distance himself from that whole sordid nightmare. But if he’s in denial about his past, that past nonetheless bleeds through the new book’s thank-yous." “Jeffrey Epstein” thus becomes a poltergeist in the new book, an unwanted blush or erection that, though unmentioned, can’t be fully concealed. https://www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pinker-anti-woke-eugenics-race-science-free-speech-epstein-edge-nathan-cofnas-jason-ar...

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  Tens of thousands protest Ecuador copper mine project near key water reserve As the scientists gush about "industrial renewal" through covering the countryside with wind machines, 90,000 Ecuadorians march and say no. 'We will not be your Green Sacrifice Zone so that you in the Global North can destroy even more through your Green Colonialism.' https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/tens-thousands-protest-dundees-ecuador-mine-project-near-key-water-res...

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  "The apparent neutrality of the suit was also highly selective – it helped unify white men as a political and social “brotherhood,” while positioning women and Black and Indigenous men as outside of the supposedly universal category of the modern citizen. In this sense, the suit’s greatest power was its ability to hide power in plain sight." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2026/09/06/masculinity-patriarchy-and-the-sartorial-revolution-a-qa-with-chloe-chapin/

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  "In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into. Firefighters reportedly found no working alarm, no suppression system, and three dead hydrants; the safety documents they’re legally entitled to see reportedly burned up in the blaze." The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/...

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  Big Tech does everything it can to hide its true water impact Because of Big Tech super-secrecy, "the most honest answer to how much water AI consumes will remain a range of source-specific figures. Their differences are useful evidence. They show that the environmental risk is real where infrastructure places new demand on a constrained water system, while a universal bottle-per-prompt statistic cannot identify where that pressure occurs." https://memeburn.com/ai-water-consumption-s...

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  In Frankfurt, Germany, the grid is currently so saturated that no new connections will be available until at least the 2030s. There, data centers consume about 41% of the city's electricity. In Dublin, it's double that. And data center electricity consumption is growing rapidly — it's expected to double by 2030 to about 945 terawatt-hours, around what Japan consumes annually, according to the International Energy Agency. https://www.dw.com/en/are-data-centers-really-bad-for-the-pl...