AI is scaling fast—but where is the accountability?
Why doesn’t AI reflect its real cost? Data centers consume massive electricity and water, yet much of AI use is effectively free. The burden shifts to the grid, the climate, and everyone else.
Simple principle: If you use AI, you pay the full cost.
Right now, we’re subsidizing infinite production of trivial content—and ignoring the real consequences.
Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet by Tony Juniper, 2025
In this extraordinary and hopeful book, leading environmentalist Tony Juniper CBE identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises: inequality.
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Suspicious because it sounds so much like Nordhaus: their outdoor focus on agriculture and mining.
These were also the only 2 sectors where Nordhaus saw harm to "the economy" from climate change.
Also Nordhaus-like suspicious: for them, heat stress only makes humans suffer.
No word of crop losses or loss of insect life due to heat stress.
Change in soil microbe composition and changed soil capillaries makes access to water ever more difficult for plants.
High temperature also drives drought via evaporation, so heat stress also causes drought-related damages in crops, soils, insects,
hinders electricity generation with water, nuclear and fossil fuels,
and disrupts water-dependent industry.
Heat stress and its drought-related stress cause built infrastructure to crumble, damages roads, rail tracks, and buildings.
All this has no impact on "the economy". Because economists don't know it, they still merely juggle with Nordhaus' DICE.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07147-z
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A global high-resolution disaster footprint analytical model is developed to show substantial socioeconomic impacts from climatic change-driven heat stress through the global supply chain by 2060 due to direct and indirect effects on health and labour productivity.
Portugal’s Free Electricity Perks Lure Climate‑Conscious Travelers
Portugal is quietly turning clean power into a tourism asset, pairing free EV charging and low‑carbon mobility schemes with a grid increasingly fueled by renewables
https://www.thetraveler.org/portugals-free-electricity-perks-lure-climate-conscious-travelers/
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for those who need to hear it: when y'all pursue your ridiculous overconsumption and wasteful trashing of everything - just based on #renewables - there will still be ridiculous amounts of #inequality and #earth is still gonna die.
thank you for your attention on this matter.
Fossil fuel money funds climate lies. Then ‘AI slopaganda’ spreads it
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“Parliamentary privilege for submissions enabled the publication of detailed and compelling evidence on the growing use of “astroturfing” and the role of “dark money” to influence mainstream public debate.
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Astroturfing is where a campaign looks “grassroots” but is in fact highly co-ordinated and well financed, often with links to think tanks, commercial interests, lobby groups, donors or political parties. The concern about dark money is the lack of transparency around donations to think tanks and third-party affiliated organisations.
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The report highlights a submission (No. 105) by Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) – an international collaboration of 800 scholars – that discusses “climate obstruction” or “intentional actions and efforts to slow or block policies on climate change that are commensurate with the current scientific consensus of what is necessary to avoid dangerous human-caused interference with the climate system”.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fossil-fuel-money-funds-climate-lies-then-ai-slopaganda-spreads-it-20260325-p5xa36.html
Video emerges of 'unprecedented' Cyclone Narelle flooding at outback station
An outback cattle station and tourist ranch in WA's north has felt the full force of Cyclone Narelle, with vision emerging of the trail of destruction left by the powerful wind and heavy rain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/bullara-station-video-tropical-cyclone-narelle/106507432
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