AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water - massive amounts of the limited resource:"pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas to…
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AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water – massive amounts of the limited resource: “pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality in tracing historical conversations in inequality, while pointing out the importance of identifying power…
Western Canada’s climate change actions are inadequate or illusory
Climate change actions of British Columbia and Manitoba are inadequate and the main efforts by Alberta and Saskatchewan to reduce greenhouse emissions are illusory. While provinces in central and eastern…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian O’Boyle discusses how Ireland’s choice to act as a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy has done nothing to help its citizens. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Oliver Milman discusses a new study showing that the costs of a climate breakdown roughly approximate what it would take to fight…
Transformation of the Self
Over thirty years ago I was in an on-again-off-again relationship that I just couldn’t shake. After months of a variety of attempts of different types of therapies, I lucked into…
Transformation of the Self
Over thirty years ago I was in an on-again-off-again relationship that I just couldn't shake. After months of a variety of attempts of different types of therapies, I lucked into…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Max Fawcett laments that anti-vaxxers and science denialists have managed to control public policy choices in the midst of a pandemic with…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington offers a glimpse of what would be in store if we continue to spew carbon pollution as projected and end…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sueellen Campbell highlights how record-breaking temperatures are being covered around the globe, while Sarah Collins discusses new research showing that the northern hemisphere’s…
Existential threat or anti-growth rhetoric?
Climate change denialism remains strong. It has been strongly linked to right-wing nationalism and to the anti-feminist far-right but it was built primarily with funds from oil companies. Denialists have…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – William Becker rightly argues that the U.S.’ practice of prioritizing fossil fuel donor profits over the health of the public and the planet…
Canada is not a world leader on climate
I won’t be much affected by climate change, but my grandchildren will pay a very high price. For older folks like me, watching this country do the wrong things for…
Self Organizing Criticality: Slowly, then All at Once
Alex Walker, Climate Finance Program Manager at Environmental Defence, wrote about spotlighting and mythbusting this week’s government studies on climate change and finance: “The Senate Banking commmittee had a study…
Instead of a path to net zero, we’re on the eve of destruction
The concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is a critical environmental issue. One important cause involves human activities such as the production and use of fossil fuels. Canada’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the response to the consensus among climate scientists that we’re headed for climate catastrophe, including the UN’s recognition…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the consensus among climate scientists that the fallout from the climate crisis looks to include at least 2.5 degrees…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joe Vipond and Steve Bentley write about the need to treat the climate breakdown in progress as a serious problem requiring immediate…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire comments on the elite panic which has seen information suppression become the norm in order to maintain the status quo for…