"He saw how easy it was for environmentalism to lose its teeth by shifting from a call to restructure society into a personal quest for harmony with nature. For Bookchin, ecological problems were not the result of a rupture in some metaphysical human consciousness, but of hierarchical systems that perpetuate domination—first of people, then of nature. If we want to address ecological crisis, we have to confront those systems. We have to make ecology political."

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Against “Ecological Consciousness”: Why We Need Ecological Literacy, Not Mystified Unity

The Earth doesn’t need us at all, it certainly doesn’t need us to awaken. It needs us to pay attention, to get involved, and to become ecologic...

Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI. "A new Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, will require more than eight million gallons of water each year to operate, according to records that Microsoft did everything in its power to keep hidden from the public."

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Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

"While Angelenos must curtail their water use, California data centers won’t even be forced to disclose their water consumption. Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required the facilities, which can guzzle millions of gallons in a single day, to report their water usage." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/