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4. Promote jobs, not AI.

5. Ensure security without video surveillance.

6. Ban advertising screens from public spaces and public transport.

7. At schools, promote open and creative education.

8. Combat the "AirBnB-ification" of housing.

9. Refuse the installation of data centers in the municipality.

10.Limit cell towers and electromagnetic exposure.

See also the Manifesto for the Right to Live Without Digital Connectivity.

Grassroots organizers in Wisconsin have a blueprint for beating back data centers. See also Derek Seidman's report on Truthout about data centers devouring electricity and private equity buying utilities to cash in.

Cities are embracing nature for flood defence, ditching concrete and making space for natural wetlands-- from Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins.

To cool the planet, consider Anastassia Makarieva's description of the Biotic Pump, mechanisms by which natural forests actively regulate the transport of atmospheric moisture fom the ocean to land.

Rather than distributing basic income, what if people received land? See Manuel Casal Lodeiro's proposal.

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