More Perfect Union's Dan Lieberman reports on Blackstone's aim to take over New Mexico's largest utility (PNM)-- and ratepayers' push back against the Public Regulatory Commission. Keep an eye on the relationship between electricity, data centers, water"and profit. Note: I admire New Energy Economy's Mariel Nanasi's work enormously. She fights to defend New Mexicans from corporations like Blackstone. However, looked at from their cradles-to-graves, I don't see anything "renewable" about solar PVs, industrial wind, battery storage or EVs. In fact, we can improve our quality of life without "renewables."
Christopher Rutledge reports that when mining companies leave, African communities pay. Note the relationship between mining, "clean energy," ecological ravaging, accountability, public health and human rights protections. Without reliable accountability mechanisms, the clean-energy transition will be neither just nor sustainable. Instead, it will leave behind a trail of abandoned mines, hollowed-out municipalities, contaminated water sources, and displaced families.
Check out this view of data centers' critical minerals use.
Generative AI consumes-- and will consume-- significantly more energy than "traditional" AI.
Potomac Sewage Spill becomes ecological disaster and political fight.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is flooding social media companies with subpoenas to identify accounts that protest ICE. Social media companies have pushed back but are largely complying.
Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Stanford University's Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, says studies conclude that addiction to platforms such as YouTube and Instagram is real and can hurt mental health. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri told the jury that he does not believe social media addiction is real.
RESTORING LIFE
Here again is a link to Ethiopians "planting rain-- "not trees. This water-soil-and-plant restoration project has changed peoples' attitudes. As one resident says, "We now understand the value of protecting our environment."
Check out Hugelkultur: An ancient growing method that requires no bagged soil, no fertilizers and almost no watering after the first year-- and produces remarkable harvests.
TEN PROPOSALS FOR DIGITAL DE-ESCALATION
1. Secure essential "off-grid" public services.
2. Ensure sober and "de-gafamed" municipal management. GAFAM refers to Google (Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (Meta), Amazon and Microsoft.
3. Guarantee humane public services.
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