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The Age of Human Arrogance, Part II
What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and […]
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Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest, extraction, and the long shadow of empire. The world into […]
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?
A friend recently told me of a new study showing that the “life cycle” of electric vehicles (EVs) causes fewer CO2 emissions than gas-powered cars. This is important since research comparing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per mile have left out the enormous emissions associated with the complex mining, manufacturing and disposal phases of EVs. Is […]
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster
Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the 160-acre farm after the Civil War. My grandmother sold it in the 1960s for $13,000, lacking a male heir to do the work; but my relatives […]
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