The final assault on nature ... “We will not stand by while our rivers are poisoned and our forests destroyed. The Peruvian government made commitments it has now failed to honor, so we are acting to defend our territory and the future of our people. This is our duty as Wampís, guided by Tarimat Pujut – our vision of life in balance with nature.”
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Wampís Territorial Guards Attacked While Defending Their Lands | Amazon Watch
"The Wampis have to confront illegal gold miners alone, despite the Peruvian government's supposed offensive against organized crime promoting...
 The mining oligarchs are doing the killing for us, for our lifestyles, for our conveniences
Amazon’s emissions have tripled since 2019, when the company committed to achieving net-zero emissions across its operations by 2040.
Earth.Org
Amazon Emissions Rose in 2024 Amid Data Center Expansion
Its emissions have tripled since Amazon announced six years ago that it is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2040.
I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc. Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?
Tech bros are the new suicide bombers. "Current data centers go through about 500,000 gallons of water a day, but the newer, bigger facilities currently in the works will require millions of gallons daily." AI is an exponential surge in energy, water and materials. As we approach civilizational collapse, Big Tech has gone into hyperdrive.
Newser
A Big Problem With AI Data Centers: Water
New York Times looks at the immense needs of such facilities
AI is putting electrical grids under terrible stress. Where will AI collapse the grid first? Dutch grid crisis exposes Europe's AI energy infrastructure gap Europe faces a stark reality check as artificial intelligence demands strain power grids.
PPC Land
Dutch grid crisis exposes Europe's AI energy infrastructure gap
Europe faces a stark reality check as artificial intelligence demands strain power grids.
There will never be a Solar Panel tree. There will never be a harvest full of seeds that drop to the soil and burst forth with new life in Spring. When the solar panel dies, it will not gently decay. Its silicon, aluminum, copper, steel, chromium, manganese, tin, nickel, zinc, molybdenum, silver, lead, titanium, tellurium, cadmium, gallium, arsenide, antimony, indium, gallium, and selenide will not nurture and nourish the soil, helping life to flourish all around it.
Gerry McGovern
Solar panels are toxic
Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’ Secrecy around project, including public officials bound by non-disclosure agreements, has left residents with more questions than answers. Water usage of 2 million gallons per day would place facility among largest consumers of water in region with exception of power plants, straining capacity of what residents have said they consider an already unreliable water utility.
Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’ - Inside Climate News
"A small ceremonial fire has been burning for more than 1,300 days on a dusty stretch of Wangan and Jagalingou Country in central Queensland, the second largest state in Australia. The flame marks the site of a protest that has been going on for more than four years. It stands at the heart of a long-running standoff between part of the local Indigenous community and the Carmichael coal mine, one of the country's most controversial mining projects."
An Indigenous Australian community is fighting to protect sacred springs from a coal mine
One Aboriginal family has been fighting for nearly a decade to protect the Doongmabulla Springs.