An Unwilling Participant in Planetcide

I just assumed he was having them gold leafed and would then have them placed along the top of the fencing surrounding the White House.

Infectious diseases are killing deer and risking rural US economies: ‘You smell the dead everywhere’ Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deer

“I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And I haven’t really went deep into the woods.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents They’re taking our jobs.

"Once they work out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too,”... if Amazon achieves its automation goal, “one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator.”

www.theverge.com/news/803257/...

I suspect a lot of places are working towards this. Speaking from an IT background I suspect that’s part of why companies love AI. Their hope is to eliminate the need for IT (amongst other roles/departments) and just have AI do it all.

The rich get richer and we all watch as they do it.

Effects of extreme drought on vital plant ecosystems New research from Murdoch University shows despite evidence grasslands and shrublands can adapt to periods of moderate drought, they can’t withstand prolonged periods of extreme dryness.

www.murdoch.edu.au/news/article...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Current emotional state:

3% gobsmacked
5% outraged
8% bemused
10% anxious
11% confused
25% angry
34% exhausted
5% WTF!

...

brain rebooting, please stand by....

Time for the sweet bliss of slumber.

It's the guns 💯%

Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm Conservationists argue president’s oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change

Suicidal

There is no way whatsoever we can dodge catastrophic climate breakdown

We are actually turning away from serious action on emissions and heading instead towards an Eocene hothouse

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them? For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.

ourworldindata.org/what-no-safe...

An infographic breaking down the material usage (Metal ores, Fossil fuels, Biomass, and non-metallic materials) by major activities: Housing (52%), Food (19%), Services (11%), Transport (8%), Household goods (8%), Clothing (1%). Graphic title: "Nearly three-quarters of the European Union's material footprint comes from housing and food production."

Well who'd of thought it. More people = more material consumption. Less people = less material consumption.

Still, it's a good article highlighting that measuring materials doesn't give a good indication of the impact of using said materials.

ourworldindata.org/material-foo...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

“Life on this planet is sustained by water. It is not sustained by data. We don't need data the way we need water,” Barnwell said.

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Oh look, humanity is still a bunch of c**ts.

Sorry to hear that Ian, at least you have a place to land and can hopefully find something better sooner rather than later.

We can’t make it on a planet that gives us air, food and water so let’s go somewhere with none of this and live happily ever after? Don’t you just love the best minds of our wealthiest people!

Earth Grief by Stephen Harrod Buhner The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"We are again living through a holocaust but this time a holocaust of the world we have known all our lives. It is a holocaust that is killing by the billions the kindred lives that surround us."

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YouTube video by Alan Watts Daily Wisdom Why Spiritually Awake People Are Quietly Disappearing from Society - Alan Watts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aHG...

This changes everything!

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More:

www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

Global goal to end deforestation nowhere near being met: Experts Deforestation "has not meaningfully declined" despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month's UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said Tuesday.

😱 Shocking! We haven't done anything meaningful about any of our issues. 😜

"Deforestation has not meaningfully declined since the beginning of the decade, and we're already halfway through,"

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference? The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

...if space is given, nature will always find ways to return, often faster and more creatively than we expect.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

“Forests are non-negotiable infrastructure for a livable planet. Continued failure to protect them puts our collective prosperity at risk."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

If you think biodiversity loss is irrelevant to you...
If you think it's not that big an issue...
If you think it doesn't really affect you personally...
If you think it's someone else's problem...

... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you were Earth, would you trust the species that is destroying you, to fix you?
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Don't feed the children, it'll just encourage them.

Most exciting news I’ve heard all day. 😁

Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s chief economist says | Fortune Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, tells Fortune parts of America are already in recession, with 22 state economies contracting despite strong national GDP growth.

fortune.com/2025/10/09/a...

IMHO, Trump should prepare himself for disappointment.

(2/2)

While having a press conference with Canadian PM Mark Carney, Trump stated that he was a great man, a great negotiator.

When the press asked Trump if he's such a great man why isn't the US making a deal with Canada he responded with

"Because I also want to be a great man".

... (1/2)

They will quit in 6 months due to being overworked.

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

Their research, published in Global Change Biology, found that across Switzerland, the average number of plant species on agricultural grassland has fallen by 26% over the last century.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...