Gulf Stream Collapse: Why Europe Could Freeze

#enviornment #ClimateCrisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqM89RE-9jE

The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild

#LA #water #enviornment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhW2BjFQCZM

Green Rameswaram Trust (under VK-NARDEP), has been honoured with the Governor's Award 2025 for Environmental Protection (Institution Category). The award was presented by the Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu at Lok Bhavan, Chennai, on 26 January 2026. Shri Ramakrishnan ji, Prakalpa Pramukh, VK-NARDEP received the award, a recognition of committed service towards a greener and more sustainable future.

#vivekanandakendra #naturalresource #enviornment

#DataCenters #Enviornment #PowerGrid

America’s AI industry faces big energy and environmental risks

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-centers-growth-environment-electricity

Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.

Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.

One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.

What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.

#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok

アンフィルターでニシン・コカ (@ncoca)は、汚染を招くパーム油発電所が地域社会に与える被害と、これまでに二つのプロジェクト建設を阻止した市民運動の実態に迫る。パーム油の収穫は東南アジアにおける森林破壊と土地利用変化 — 特に泥炭地でのプランテーション開発 — を意味し、大量の温室効果ガスを排出している。

日本とその近隣諸国に及ぼす短期的・長期的な影響について、詳細を記事にした

https://www.unfiltered.coop/palm-oil-power-jp/

#unfiltered #japan #enviornment #palmoil #southeastasia #pollution

As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth

https://rabble.ca/columnists/overcoming-societal-psychosis/

Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro

#marine #enviornment #ElectricVehicle #EV #battery