You are much closer to sleeping on the streets than sleeping in the mansion of a billionaire. And the envious desire to sleep in the mansion of the billionaire is what is destroying our environment. We have allowed the greedy and cruel to dominate and their insatiable greed and cruelty will inevitably lead to environmental… Read More »

The digital sector is sometimes known as the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. What is digital and what is not digital is often defined based on an OECD classification that was last updated in 2007, according to Gauthier Roussilhe, who specializes in the environmental challenges of digitalization. The digital category includes such things as… Read More »

When asked to give examples of sexual harassment at US law schools, ChatGPT—the latest AI miracle worker—named a law professor who it said has been accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska. As evidence, it cited a Washington Post story from 2018. “The law prof is real,” Will Oremus, a Washington… Read More »

We are facing climate, soil, air, water, chemical, fertilizer, and plastics crises. Interlinked with these are a whole range of mining waste, commercial waste, data waste and e-waste crises. We have zero hope of solving the crises we face by simply focusing on one metric such as CO2. In fact, focusing too much on CO2… Read More »

When we look across the landscape, what do we see? A human species relentlessly driving itself to collapse, with half of the population screaming to put the foot even harder on the accelerator. And what is the accelerator? Technology is the accelerator. And yet an almost constant refrain is that technology is neither good nor… Read More »

As our environment comes under more and more pressure from the growth demands of rich humans, more and more recognize that this growth and overconsumption are the core problems we face. One area, however, that is still obsessed by growth, that still thinks that accelerated growth is the very goal of civilization, is the technology… Read More »

The people of the United States are sucking their country dry of fresh water at frenetic rates. They will not stop, they cannot stop, because they are driven by the pump of capitalism, as it seeks—at all and any cost—to turn every material into dollars. As the scientists lay out more and more dire warnings… Read More »

Most of us have a concept of home. It is something that is critically important to us. A place we feel comfortable and protected. We care much about our home. We like to keep it warm, clean, dry, safe, comfortable. At a most basic level, our home is a house or an apartment. Some of… Read More »

The Titan submersible which imploded as it tried to reach the Titanic wouldn’t get certified because certification “slowed down innovation”. This is an age when innovation has become a religious mantra, a belief system, a matter of fate. Innovation culture did not simply lead the Titan to catastrophe. High-tech innovation is leading the entire human… Read More »

Mining is devastating to the environment. The explosion in mining since the 1970s is one of the key reasons we have climate, water, air and multiple other crises. As a species we have begun to devour the Earth, and the environment simply can’t cope with our voracious appetites. We are now trying to convince ourselves… Read More »