The more energy we consume, the more we accelerate the Sixth Mass Extinction.

As Tom Murphy has said, for Nature, the difference between "renewable" energy and fossil fuel energy is the difference between decapitation or bullet through the head.

We do not face an energy production problem.

We do face an energy consumption crisis.

We consume vastly too much and produce vastly too much toxic waste.

We must face up to what the real problems are.

"The #oil industry is a fire industry. It is a #CO2 industry. it is a #climate changing industry." Yet the leadership of #Alberta and #Canada are all in on killing #ecosystems, generating more #climate #refugees, and driving more rapid #climateBreakdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjeuEsJHwOA

#cdnpoli #abpoli #BigOil #CorporateCapture #NeverTrustLiberals #NeverVoteConservative

RE: https://spore.social/@marcia/116857608414721665

I know it's so depressing to fight another pipeline, but if there's a loud enough movement we can force the federal government to pause this plan, like we did for planned changes to environmental assessment legislation.
https://www.theenergymix.com/worse-than-harper-regulatory-rollback-would-stop-canada-from-assessing-project-impacts-critics-warn/

MPs are aware there's a very unfavourable narrative about this government's record on environmental issues, and we need to make sure we keep up the pressure, including reminding them how voters in swing ridings feel.
https://climateactionnetwork.ca/new-polling-quebec-and-b-c-voters-in-key-swing-ridings-strongly-oppose-federal-funding-for-a-pipeline/

#CdnPoli

1. Collude to raise memory costs.
2. Massively build out cloud infrastructure under the guise of AGI everyone knows ain’t gonna happen.
3. Collude to drop prices on cloud storage to bankrupt competitors and bait the suckers.
4. Set the hook by jacking cloud storage prices after everyone has given up trying store their own data due to cost.

Welcome to the #kleptocracy.

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative. https://youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY

A few thoughts on the emerging future that is already here even as more folks, closer to the center of the current dominant system begin to deepen in alarm. As the end of this road becomes ever more looming.

beautiful first person essay from Dr Sandra Yellowhorse, Diné woman and research fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau/the University of Auckland. She has a PhD in education and is a critical Indigenous disability studies scholar and community-based researcher. She journeys alongside Indigenous peoples from Aotearoa to Turtle Island to uplift cultural perspectives of disability.

https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/how-our-ancestral-wisdom-approaches-disability/

#Indigenous #Dine #Disability #Autism

I've spent 30 years working with some of the largest organizations in the world on their data and content.

Here's a universal truth.

Most data is slop.

Most data is crap.

At least 90% of data in a typical org should be deleted. Data centers were slop-houses long before slop AI.

Data centers are glorified data dumps and senior management has never, ever cared because it's always been "cheaper" to "solve" the data problem by buying more storage.

We are killing the planet for crap data.

@cabinradio Thankful for this reporting. #Canada's public broadcaster is again MIA during these times of #ClimateEmergency.

#CBCNews #DOBetter #JournalismMatters #NWT #wildfires

Competitions like this — whether to design logos or buildings — are a bullshit way to get people to work for free, on spec.

No self-respecting professionals will submit entries, leaving those who aren’t busy (likely for good reasons) to enter.

This is a national embarrassment.

(If you want to know who has the PM’s actual respect, notice that none of the AI companies are asked to submit to this sort of indignity to get government contracts.) @carrieberry https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/116825270633453779

"American billionaires own millions of acres of farmland in B.C. They control the only oil refinery on #Canada’s West Coast. They own the only gas pipeline to the coast. They own the Ksi Lisims #LNG proposal. The American government, companies and wealthy citizens own critical minerals mines, sawmills, warehouses, businesses and luxury real estate all over B.C." https://www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/whos-behind-backlash-over-indigenous-rights-bc/

#bcpoli #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #cdnpoli #capitalism

It seems rising temperatures have been forgotten by the Carney govt and elsewhere.
After reading about a data centre shutdown in France due to extreme heat, I wondered about nuclear reactors. It's not only nuclear...

"Three forms of generation, three different failure modes -
Nuclear gets most of the headlines because the shutdowns are dramatic and the numbers are large. But the heat is squeezing every form of thermal and hydraulic generation Europe runs on."
"Hydropower depends on water that is not there..."
"Gas plants lose efficiency..."
"Coal plants face the same cooling-water constraints as nuclear, though with smaller absolute volumes."

"Heat does not just stress the grid by making people switch on cooling. It physically degrades the machines that produce the electricity."

Our leaders are in denial and very short-sighted. They prefer to live in denial and waste our money on outdated projects as if there is no #climatecrisis

#CanPoli #Onpoli

https://siliconcanals.com/sc-d-europes-nuclear-fleet-is-being-throttled-by-the-same-heatwave-driving-record-demand-and-the-river-temperature-rule-meant-to-protect-fish-is-quietly-becoming-the-grids-biggest-single-point-of-fail/

it would be the same for practically any sizeable Canadian company, including all the banks...and for the federal and provincial govts themselves.

Even the super paranoid security and intelligence parts... they've jumped in with both feet into Palantir and data sharing. They've been pumping the secrets into US companies as fast as anyone else.

No connected computer system will be convincingly sovereign for decades.

Former mining town in northern Manitoba to hold meeting on well being of residents
https://www.aptnnews.ca/videos/former-mining-town-in-northern-manitoba-to-hold-meeting-on-well-being-of-residents/

After the mine is shut--and it always is shut--the people and the environment always suffer. There is no such thing as responsible mining. There is no such thing as sustainable mining. We are building our futures by digging graves.

Here's a chance to show up if there is an action in your community this Thursday June 25
It's show up at your MPs office at different times depending on your city. You can check their directory.

https://350.org/mou/?r=CA&c=NA

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

A feel-good thing that occupied part of my day - checking on the garden:
Keeping an eye out for suckers on the San Marzano tomato plants
Hunting for how many black currants are hidden in the lush foliage
Looking for sprouting seedlings from earlier plantings
Wondering how I can fix a bit of a leak on the spigot of a rain barrel

The first sugar snap peas have appeared, 4 small zucchini are growing and my black currants are larger than last year due to more rain and they're starting to turn colour. It's a hopeful time....

#gardening #GrowYourOwn

“I wondered why I was so afraid of becoming an artist and leaving a good job. I started to cry. I realized that I had just been in a country where there was no unemployment insurance, there was no welfare, yet the people were happy. I was no longer afraid.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #art #BC

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/artist-80-has-stayed-true-his-gift-throughout-his-career

@datum Canada provides tax credits to Canadian investors in foreign operated mines.

If Canada is providing tax credits to its citizens on foreign mining operations violations should be considered by Canadian courts.

Get a Canadian tax credit through those human rights violations and never worry about those violations being examined by a Canadian court. A double standard to invest in just for Canada’s wealthiest.
“flow through shares”

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-mining/mining-policy-taxation-industry/mining-taxation/mining-specific-tax-provisions

@datum The pathetic “it happened somewhere else, it’s none of our concern” & our PM just reinforces this.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA RESPONDS TO ONTARIO APPEAL COURT RULING ON CLAIM AGAINST BARRICK GOLD

Barrick Gold is a Canadian mining co

https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-appeal-court-ruling-on-claim-against-barrick-gold/