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Until more people lose their conviction that technology will solve every existential problem, existential problems will continue to accumulate.
The relationship between dangerous technologies and extreme weather is a feedback loop: technology helps intensify the hazard, and the hazard turns technology into a second disaster.
America’s Next Industrial Catastrophe May Already Be Underway—and No One Is Prepared to Stop It
As fiercer storms collide with an aging industrial system, a unique kind of catastrophe is becoming more commonplace—and no one, it seems, is fully prepared to stop it.
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Even in the best-case scenario where an invasive species can be hunted, eaten, and turned into an economic resource, it almost always has a disproportionate effect on native species and landscapes.
Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner
The overpopulation of axis deer has taken an environmental toll, but Maui Nui Venison sees it as a resource instead of a pest
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A bat once caught regularly at a desert spring became extraordinarily rare. No one watched the population collapse. It simply stopped showing up. New Essay: The Bats That Stopped Showing Up
The Bats That Stop Showing Up
At Quitobaquito Springs, a disappearing bat reveals how much can vanish before we learn to measure it
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Moveable feast: myna birds on train in viral video looking for food, not a ‘joyride’
Moveable feast: myna birds on train in viral video looking for food, not a ‘joyride’
Myna birds are ‘incredibly good learners’ and likely hopped on the inner-city train to scrounge
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Nature disrespecting human technology and engineering… again. A 715,000-square-foot data center, and a bacterium still gets the final word.
Wyoming officials say Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center is responsible for contaminating its water system with a rare bacterium
July 10, 2026, 10:53 AM ET Wyoming residents attend an Evanston planning and zoning commission meeting regarding the construction of the nearby Prometheus Hyperscale data center. Cheyenne, Wyoming, officials say Meta’s data center construction is responsible for the contamination of part of the town’s recycled water system. The Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) traced the presence of a bacterium discovered in its wastewater treatment facility earlier this year to Goat Systems LLC, a Meta
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I built AI cams to monitor local #wildlife or to warn #birds of wind turbines or transmission towers. I monitored construction sites for endangered #bat species. I did it for the money. I made everything only worse since this monitors & treats symptoms only, not causes. I quit. Now I can be honest.
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe should value nothing more than the land that grows our food. Then, we should value nobody more than the field workers who work the land for us and make all our lives possible. Instead, we torture and murder most life on Earth for our food. We value field workers the least. We will go extinct.
Yes. I worked on such projects professionally before I quit a few years back so that I can be more honest overall.
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 4mo agoI built AI cams to monitor local #wildlife or to warn #birds of wind turbines or transmission towers. I monitored construction sites for endangered #bat species. I did it for the money. I made everything only worse since this monitors & treats symptoms only, not causes. I quit. Now I can be honest.
If we kill animals and their habitats, we can't help animals. We are the villain, not hero. E.g. What % of crops (pesticides, soil & habitat erosion) is used as livestock feed? 80% of oilseeds 50% of cereals 45% of roots & tubers 55% of pulses The #scienc of #landuse is the maths of extinction.
Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 7d ago📝 New article on Our World in Data: Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades. The largest driver of deforestation globally is the expansion of agricultural land.
In the 1980s, biologists regularly caught Underwood’s mastiff bats at Quitobaquito Springs. Only one has been captured anywhere in Arizona since 2002. New Substack essay about Quitobaquito on Wednesday.
Tohono O'odham fight Arizona border wall at sacred spring - KTAR.com
The Tohono O'odham Nation is battling border wall construction near Quitobaquito Springs, a sacred site in Arizona.
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We are not “creating water” for the Colorado River. We are moving water around a chessboard—reusing it, conserving it, desalinating seawater, pumping groundwater, changing allocations. Those things may buy time. But rearranging scarcity is not the same thing as ending it.
Opinion | Water creation could save the Colorado River
An open market may lead to more water left in the river.
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"Shifts in global food production to plant-based diets by 2050 could lead to sequestration of 332–547 GtCO2, equivalent to 99–163% of the CO2 budget consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C." www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Science of #Extinction = Population x Eating Animals
The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet
A leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing efforts to curb climate change
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Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 5mo agoBelow, Leon shows forcing by GHG. Here we see forcing by source. Half of all forcing is due to cheap meat & dairy for cheap humans. How often do you hear fossil fuels? How often 🍔? Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Talk about an #odyssey! Our journey to get #ESA protections for Dunes sagebrush lizards has lasted over 40 years. We were successful in 2024. But then #Texas sued, and the Service claimed it had made an error in designating them as #endangered. So the saga continues ➡️ bit.ly/3UmMkUF
#Biodiversity gives us clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and we are slowly chipping away at that by developing public lands. It's not just about one #DataCenter on public lands. It's about the integrity of our #PublicLands, and it's about our own future.
Residents liken fight over data centers between small desert city and feds to “David versus Goliath”
The case could set a precedent for data centers on federal lands
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Why should I care about biodiversity destruction? youtu.be/wpsvSRJea1A?... via @YouTube
Why should I care about biodiversity destruction?
YouTube video by Joined Up Thinking
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"A finite planet, with finite resources cannot be plundered definitely. A delicately balanced biosphere, which evolved over billions of years to the point where it became compatible with higher life forms, cannot be abused filled with our toxic detritus, forever”
lights out for migrating birds@lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · last wk."A finite planet, with finite resources cannot be plundered definitely. A delicately balanced biosphere, which evolved over billions of years to the point where it became compatible with higher life forms, cannot be abused filled with our toxic detritus, forever”
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Cottontail Cottage Wildlife Rehab on Instagram: "It’s heartbreaking enough to get one bat stuck on a glue board, two was devastating. We believe the second bat heard the first crying, she came down to...
36K likes, 788 comments - cottontailwildlife on August 19, 2026: "It’s heartbreaking enough to get one bat stuck on a glue board, two was devastating. We believe the second bat heard the first crying,...
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Science Overload on Instagram: "Bodycam footage captured a remarkable rescue during a fast-moving wildfire, as flames and thick smoke threatened wildlife trapped in the area. After spotting a distress...
14K likes, 399 comments - scienceoverload on August 11, 2026: "Bodycam footage captured a remarkable rescue during a fast-moving wildfire, as flames and thick smoke threatened wildlife trapped in the ...
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