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14 hours agoWalkaway by Cory Doctorow on the free libby app available from public libraries
greenfire
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and choke on all that gristle???
12·17 hours agomore blond please
My America Grovels Awkwardly
20·1 day agoI’m pessimistic about the future,” he says. “But I’m optimistic about people.” Luke Kemp’s new book covers the rise and collapse of more than 400 societies over 5,000 years and took seven years to write. The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.
Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
Leave our neighbors alone- hands off our communities you masked marauding fools
1·3 days agotrue…do enjoy your crock, my dude
take the train Jane (refresh your brain)
7·3 days agothen Muck is the prince
Crazy don’t crack
“It’s mine, it’s ALL MINE!!!”
Bill McKibben: It must be kind of disorienting to realize that the fossil fuel industry is, for the moment, in charge of a lot of things.
Emily Atkin: It can make you feel like, what do we do?
BK: But here’s the interesting thing about it—they’re clearly very scared too. They’ve spent more money than they ever have on politics before. They’re doubling down in every possible way—state, local, federal. They understand that they face an unprecedented threat.
The South keeps on rising again & again & again!
mask up LEO he-men!!
US moves to continue to eliminate conditions that allow humans to breathe & thrive on Planet Earth
you mean Dr Ozzz???
water belongs in a glass
6·4 days agospit on their shoes & say ‘good day to you sir or madam & begone with you, ye worthless guttersnipe!’
leave our neighbors alone, you thuggish pricks