"Climate foundations […] took the same approach to journalism that their sworn enemies—oil majors—have: They focused on controlling the story and hijacking the influence of journalists and journalism to their own ends, as opposed to supporting an ecosystem that would benefit not only their own cause but democracy as a whole."
Amy Westervelt: https://drilled.ghost.io/climate-medias-philanthropy-problem/
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Climate Media's Philanthropy Problem
We've talked before about the massive bloodletting in climate media this year; even amidst the general demise of journalism, climate reporting stands out as having been hit particularly hard. The Washington Post and Reuters dismantled their climate teams, CBS did the same. Vox, The Los Angeles Times, and CNN all
Financiador de Trump ganha ajuda do governo brasileiro para implementar falsa solução climática | Intercept Brasil
O magnata do agronegócio dos Estados Unidos Bruce Rastetter tenta há cinco anos emplacar em seu país o que vende como solução inovadora para a crise
Meet the propagandists, the true believers, the bought politicians, the environmental costs and more in this interview with Katen Hao on the Empire of AI.
"Drilled, Drilling Deep: Karen Hao on How Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips"
Here or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-8x7pt-2c02a77a
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Drilling Deep: Karen Hao on How Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips
What is “artificial intelligence”? Is it a fancy technology? A management consulting buzzword? A PR effort to inflate corporate share prices? A political project designed to shape the world more to the liking of the billionaire class? A way to replace needy human workers with machines? Perhaps it’s all of that—and more. In her groundbreaking book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, award-winning journalist Karen Hao argues that AI—and the profit-driven infrastructure that surrounds it—is a colonial project. What OpenAI boss Altman and his fellow ideologues in Silicon Valley are pursuing, Hao says, is not just corporate power but imperial power. They are building empires. And as history shows, empires are built on resource extraction, particularly the old-fashioned kind: of labor, energy, minerals, land, water. Seemingly overnight, tech elites’ feel-good climate promises have evaporated, having been seamlessly swapped for slippery promises that so-called “artificial general intelligence” will save the planet for us. Never mind that AGI is a fantastical concept that has no agreed-upon definition, or that, more fundamentally, it appears nowhere close to existing. In Big Tech’s frenzied pursuit of the “hyperscale” AI dominance that evangelists claim will unlock AGI, as well as its expanding alliances with fossil fuel-backed petrostates and authoritarian political movements, the industry has become an increasingly central contributor to the climate crisis. In an October conversation with Drilled, Hao discussed how Silicon Valley giants appear to be following the oil and gas industry’s playbook of disinformation and deceit; how Altman and OpenAI’s secrecy and disingenuous rhetoric transformed the field of AI research into corporate PR; and why the destructive trajectory of AI scale and commercialization is not inevitable—no matter what its power-hungry proponents would have you believe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Amy Westervelt interviews the UK professor behind the first peer reviewed study on this subject.
"Drilled", episode "How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression".
Here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-mr2ww-2acf7962
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How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression
It's easy to feel like climate "doesn't matter" as the United States descends into fascism, as if climate and democracy are somehow separate issues. Researcher Oscar Berglund and Amy Westervelt connect the dots between the global backlash to climate protest and the broader repression we're seeing in supposedly democratic countries around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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