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What the oil industry doesn’t want you to know - Stephanie Honchell Smith

TED-Ed

>Uncover the oil industry’s decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science regarding the danger of fossil fuels.

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>Throughout the 1980s, oil industry reps discussed the dangers of burning fossil fuels, acknowledging the risk their product posed to the future of humanity. However, instead of warning the public or pivoting towards renewable energy sources, they doubled down on oil — and launched a decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science. Stephanie Honchell Smith digs into Big Oil's tactics.

>Lesson by Stephanie Honchell Smith, directed by Sofia Pashaei.

>This video made possible in collaboration with Speed & Scale

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Following a plant-based diet does not harm athletic performance, systematic review finds
  • It's really funny watching you believe that a drink is comparable the foundational foods of a diet, to the staple foods. You really have zero clue about nutrition.

  • I am a software developer at PornHub
  • At least name it well. What's tw supposed to mean?

  • Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way
  • I'm eating beans right now. I made some kidney bean "tofu".

  • AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
  • The retroactive enclosure of the digital commons.

  • AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
  • GOOD.

    This "informational incest" is present in many aspects of society and needs to be stopped (one of the worst places is in the Intelligence sector).

  • Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way
  • They're being downvoted because the UPF moral panic is being used to promote the meat industry, which is what this is in this context. They have entire ad campaigns for it, so this user's comment is essentially repeating a Big Beef ad.

  • 🧑‍⚖️Integrity vs Expediency: The Climate Trial (Roger Hallam)

    rogerhallam.com 🧑‍⚖️Integrity vs Expediency: The Climate Trial

    As Martin Luther King said, moderates are our biggest obstacle to freedom. Here's how they enabled my prison sentence.

    🧑‍⚖️Integrity vs Expediency: The Climate Trial
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    We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
  • Sure they do, the tech makes it all the more deadly and impersonal. You get remote oppression, deadly robots, big bombs, but also precision death - your own personal haunting, as you are chased to death by a small drone with a gun.

    The media in which this happens is a constant source of alienation and insanity from all the isolation and subjective experience. You don't even get to commiserate and your cries of horror and pain aren't just muffled, they're inverted and turned into fantasy fulfillment and marketing materials.

    All of this is also more efficient, faster, better, smarter, bigger, and thus you have nowhere to really hide.

    You rarely get to see your killer, to face them, to look into their eyes. The same goes for them; to them you're not an enemy, you're a pest. They don't see you, they see a few moving pixels on a screen, at best.

  • We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
  • The difference would be the tech and the ocean of media it all floats in.

  • Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it's Killing the Groves - Inside Climate News
  • So much for the "it's a pyroscape and they need fire!!" theory

  • insideclimatenews.org Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it's Killing the Groves - Inside Climate News

    Two recent studies find that sequoia groves burned in megafires of 2020 and 2021 were so severely damaged that the world’s tallest trees may not be able to naturally regenerate.

    Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it's Killing the Groves - Inside Climate News
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    Free Sindre! Interview With Sindre, Locked up Indefinitely For Actions Against A Mink Farmer Support Zine

    cross-posted from: https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/246039

    > Direct link to zine pdf https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/files/2024/07/Sindre_Vegan_Support_Zine.pdf > > Warzone Distro is the distributor/publisher, Unoffensive Animal is the zine that did the interview

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    Following a plant-based diet does not harm athletic performance, systematic review finds
  • Citation for gladiators drinking bone broth for calcium?

  • Airports disrupted across Europe as civil resistance groups join Oil Kills – the International Uprising to end fossil fuels - PRESS RELEASE - Oil Kills

    oilkills.org PRESS RELEASE - Oil Kills

    For immediate release Airports disrupted across Europe as civil resistance groups join Oil Kills – the International Uprising to end […]

    PRESS RELEASE - Oil Kills

    >” Ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands today to do what our criminal governments have failed to do. We are putting our bodies on the wheels of the machine of the global fossil economy and saying oil kills; we refuse to die for fossil fuels and we refuse to stand by while hundreds of millions of innocent people are murdered. We are in resistance against our murderous governments and the criminal elites who are threatening the survival of humanity.

    >“The climate crisis will not end until every single country has phased out fossil fuels, but those who bear the greatest responsibility and have the greatest capacity must do the most. As citizens of wealthy countries based in the global north, we demand that our governments stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that they support and finance other countries to make a fast, fair and just transition. They must sign a Fossil Fuel Treaty to end the war on humanity before we lose everything. “

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    You wouldn't go to a prison for fun?

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    Sea Shepherd Calls For Immediate Release Of Founder Paul Watson Following Arrest

    plantbasednews.org Sea Shepherd Calls For Release Of Paul Watson Following Arrest

    Paul Watson was on his way to intercept a new Japanese whaling vessel when he was arrested by Danish police.

    Sea Shepherd Calls For Release Of Paul Watson Following Arrest
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    We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.

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    Every Time The Boys Parodied Evangelical Christianity (ALL SEASONS)

    > The Boy spoofs Evangelicalism constantly. Evangelical Christianity, white Christian nationalism, and Qanon are all wrapped up together these days, and The Boys provides hilarious and frightening satire of this mess. Project 2025, Donald Trump, anti-LGBT policies, The Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Franklin Graham, President George Bush, and so many more are treated in the show.

    I have no idea why the automated preview is in Russian. Perhaps the Lemmy servers are getting a localized version.

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    www.theguardian.com We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

    Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight

    We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25422278

    > How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address. > > Three months later, without any input, they were riddled with sexist and misogynistic content. > > Initially Facebook served up jokes from The Office and other sitcom-related memes alongside posts from 7 News, Daily Mail and Ladbible. A day later it began showing Star Wars memes and gym or “dudebro”-style content. > > By day three, “trad Catholic”-type memes began appearing and the feed veered into more sexist content. > > Three months later, The Office, Star Wars, and now The Boys memes continue to punctuate the feed, now interspersed with highly sexist and misogynistic images that have have appeared in the feed without any input from the user.

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    Portals

    Artist: https://falseknees.tumblr.com/post/753916544017481728

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    grist.org Canada makes an unprecedented push for multifamily housing

    To tap billions in infrastructure funds, provinces must require cities to revise their zoning laws to encourage climate-friendy fourplexes.

    Canada makes an unprecedented push for multifamily housing
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    grist.org Canada makes an unprecedented push for multifamily housing

    To tap billions in infrastructure funds, provinces must require cities to revise their zoning laws to encourage climate-friendy fourplexes.

    Canada makes an unprecedented push for multifamily housing
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    IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs

    >A global IT outage has caused chaos at airports, banks, railways andbusinesses around the world as a wide range of services were taken offline and millions of people were affected.

    >In one of the most widespread IT crashes ever to hit companies and institutions globally, air transport ground to a halt, hospitals were affected and large numbers of workers were unable to access their computers. In the UK Sky News was taken off air temporarily and the NHS GP booking system was down.

    >Microsoft’s Windows service was at the centre of the outage, with experts linking the problem to a software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike that has affected computer systems around the world. Experts said the outage could take days from which to recover because every PC may have to be fixed manually.

    >Overnight, Microsoft confirmed it was investigating an issue with its services and apps, with the organisation’s service health website warning of “service degradation” that meant users may not be able to access many of the company’s most popular services, used by millions of business and people around the world.

    >Among the affected firms are Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, which said on its website: “Potential disruptions across the network (Fri 19 July) due to a global third party system outage … We advise passengers to arrive at the airport three hours in advance of their flight to avoid any disruptions.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death

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    Plague felled European families long before the Black Death 5000 years ago, generations of people buried in tombs in Sweden were infected by Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium

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    www.japantimes.co.jp The world’s power grids are failing as the planet warms

    Hotter summers cause spikes in demand for cooling, but upgrades to power infrastructure haven’t kept pace with climate change.

    The world’s power grids are failing as the planet warms

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18016230

    > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18013671

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    gizmodo.com A Homeowner Mutiny in Florida Is Leaving the State More Vulnerable to Hurricanes

    The federal government is refusing to restore eroded beaches in Pinellas County unless homeowners agree to one condition: public access.

    A Homeowner Mutiny in Florida Is Leaving the State More Vulnerable to Hurricanes

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37059204

    > Lisa Hendrickson is almost out of sand. > > Hendrickson is the mayor of Redington Shores, Florida, a well-heeled beach town in Pinellas County. Her town occupies a small section of a razor-thin barrier island that stretches down the western side of the sprawling Tampa Bay metro area, dividing cities like Tampa and St. Petersburg from the Gulf of Mexico. Many of her constituents have an uninterrupted view of the ocean. > > The town’s only protection from the Gulf of Mexico’s increasingly erratic storms is a pristine beach that draws millions of tourists every year — but that beach is disappearing fast. A series of storms, culminating in last fall’s Hurricane Idalia, have eroded most of the sand that protects Redington Shores and the towns around it, leaving residents just one big wave away from water overtaking their homes.

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    thereader.mitpress.mit.edu A Brief History of Consumer Culture

    Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

    A Brief History of Consumer Culture
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    www.theguardian.com Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial

    Prosecution of five Just Stop Oil activists over M25 protest led to chaotic scenes in court and concerns about ‘judicial persecution’

    Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial
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    www.vox.com Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?

    Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.

    Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?
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