Educators ‘climatize’ their classes to prepare students for work and life on a warming planet
About four years ago, Holly Bailey-Hofmann’s English 101 class at West Los Angeles College got a complete makeover. She’d signed up to be part of a pilot program for professors interested in infusing their curriculum with lessons about climate change and community resilience. The program only required her to “climatize” one module of the syllabus, […]
Blockade is an act of war: Trump escalates attack on Venezuela – Struggle – La Lucha
Interior minister and PSUV leader Diosdado Cabello leading a mass demonstration in Caracas on Nov. 25, 2025. Photo: Francisco Trias On Dec. 16, the Trump admini
The reality: "tech" is not a benign industry, and sets profit and market share above all else. What makes this especially frustrating is that there is no obvious attempt or strategy to make use of the waste heat generated in the AI & crypto mining factories.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/ugly-truth-ai-chatgpt-guzzling-resources-environment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ClimateCrisis #EnergyWasting #resourceplundering
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato
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Just watched this: spot on! 🤨 👍️
[CW: language] Honest Government Ad | Canada 🇨🇦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7s-BgfcFXw
https://files.persagen.com/01/canada-honest_government_ad.webm
Mentions this authoritarian tactic:
Playbook for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq & Afghanistan
Darker truths behind violence & intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction
https://ricochet.media/en/3980/training-for-rcmps-wetsuweten-raids-provided-by-former-us-commander-in-iraq-and-afghanistan
#Canada #RCMP #Wetsuweten #corporations #ResourcePlundering #neofascism #PoliceState
Honest Government Ad | Visit Canada
[thread] Canada, logging
Company forced to reduce logging in Haida Gwaii old-growth forest suing for $75M
https://thenarwhal.ca/haida-court-teal-jones
* Haida Gwaii Management Council protection of ancient trees meant Teal-Jones could no longer log them
* B.C. Supreme Court will decide who pays when conservation impacts corporate profit
Haida Gwaii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haida_Gwaii
Teal-Jones Group: https://tealjones.com
#BritishColumbia #HaidaGwaii #OldGrowthForests #logging #capitalism #TealJones #ResourcePlundering
A company was forced to reduce logging in Haida Gwaii's old-growth forests. Now they’re suing for $75M
The Haida Gwaii Management Council’s decision to protect ancient trees meant Teal-Jones could no longer log them. Now, the B.C. Supreme Court will decide who pays when conservation cuts into corporate profit
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Peter Riley
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0