#consumption — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #consumption, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.
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https://www.europesays.com/es/548385/ Deutsche Bank asegura que está impulsada por la demanda #asia #ASIAN #Business #clean #cleaning #cleans #consumer #consumers #CONSUMPTION #EastAsia #eco #Economía #economic #Economy #ES #España #HouseholdGoods #japan #Japanese #retail #RETAILER #shop #shopping #shops #Spain #spend #spending #store #STORES
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https://theconversation.com/why-climate-action-stalls-despite-widespread-popular-support-282002. If only! The problem is (apart from anything else, mentioned in the article), that #renewable #energy = renewable #electricity, & electricity is only 21% of global final energy #consumption (https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/share-electricity-final-consumption.html), with 61.3% of that generated by "unabated #fossilfuels" as of 2021 (https://www.iea.org/fuels-and-technologies/electricity/). That situation will need to improve considerably, to say the least.
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Australia Pasta Market 2026: Convenience Foods, Premium Variants & Health-Conscious Consumption Driving Growth
Australia Pasta Market Overv…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianmeals ##HealthConscious #2026 #Australia #consumption #convenience #driving #Foods #growth #Italia #Italian #italianmeals #italiano #italy #market #Pasta #premium #variants
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2637593/australia-pasta-market-2026-convenience-foods-premium-variants-health-conscious-consumption-driving-growth/ -
Australia Pasta Market 2026: Convenience Foods, Premium Variants & Health-Conscious Consumption Driving Growth https://www.diningandcooking.com/2637593/australia-pasta-market-2026-convenience-foods-premium-variants-health-conscious-consumption-driving-growth/ ##HealthConscious #2026 #Australia #consumption #convenience #driving #Foods #growth #Italia #Italian #ItalianMeals #italiano #italy #market #Pasta #premium #variants
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The fact the body can get infections also shows it's not you or yours. It's a territory you're inhabiting, and, just like land, you have to constantly defend it against others who also want to either live there or consume it as food.
#buddhism #body #infection #moha #delusion #territory #colonialism #occupation #defence #defense #food #consumption
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The fact the body can get infections also shows it's not you or yours. It's a territory you're inhabiting, and, just like land, you have to constantly defend it against others who also want to either live there or consume it as food.
#buddhism #body #infection #moha #delusion #territory #colonialism #occupation #defence #defense #food #consumption
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The fact the body can get infections also shows it's not you or yours. It's a territory you're inhabiting, and, just like land, you have to constantly defend it against others who also want to either live there or consume it as food.
#buddhism #body #infection #moha #delusion #territory #colonialism #occupation #defence #defense #food #consumption
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The fact the body can get infections also shows it's not you or yours. It's a territory you're inhabiting, and, just like land, you have to constantly defend it against others who also want to either live there or consume it as food.
#buddhism #body #infection #moha #delusion #territory #colonialism #occupation #defence #defense #food #consumption
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Book of the Month: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
This is a fantastic book by John Green, published in March 2025 and we picked up a signed copy at the Wellcome Museum in London back in October 2025. We finally got round to reading it this week, with its slight 208 pages offering a very moving historical record of one of humanity’s deadliest diseases.
Everything is Tuberculosis explores how the illness has shaped human history, from the arts through to medicine and beyond, with Green arguing the condition is primarily caused by human choices (rather than bacteria). Lets explore its compassionate pages here.
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“The world we share is a product of all the worlds we used to share. For me at least, the history and present of tuberculosis reveal the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans. My wife, Sarah, often jokes that in my mind everything is about tuberculosis, and tuberculosis is about everything. She’s right.”
We got a TB jab 30+ years ago and tuberculosis hasn’t played on our minds much since. It feels like a disease of “the past”, even though it continues to kill over a million people annually. But there is a cure, unfortunately some people just don’t have access to that cure.
When we were growing up TB kept cropping in things we were interested in. One of our favourite writers, George Orwell, died of it in 1950 aged only 46. And in the cult classic film Ravenous (1999) the character Colqhuon (Robert Carlyle) recovers from the condition by resorting to cannibalism.
There’s an entire chapter in Everything is Tuberculosis dedicated to creative people who died of the condition. As during the 18th century, the illness was associated with creative genius. Stupidly, of course, as a lot of people got TB and some of them were always going to have a creative streak.
Some of the famous names who died due to TB include Emily Brontë, John Keats, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekov, Molière, and Frédéric Chopin. The disease was particularly associated with Romanticism.
There’s also the great Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), a haiku master who was still penning new prose just hours before his death. Although he died aged 34, he wrote over 20,000 stanzas. This was one of his last.
Pain from coughing,
the long night’s lame flame,
small as a pea.Tuberculosis is also a horrible disease. It was called consumption for a long time as it caused patients to waste away under its ordeals, become emaciated and skeletal in the process.
This often lent a pale, red-cheeked look that, in the Victorian era, society viewed as a sign of beauty (so other people, not even with TB, would often try to replicate the gaunt look). Yes, then, the pale and haggard look of people nearing death was viewed as attractive.
But this is not a condition you want to get.
“M. tuberculosis is a near-perfect human predator in par because it moves so slowly. The bacteria has an uncommonly slow growth rate. While E. Coli can double in number about every twenty minutes in a laboratory environment, M. tuberculosis doubles only about once per day. And so infections simply take much, much longer to make an infected person sick, as the number of bacteria remains lower, allowing the immune system lots of time to mount a defense against the pathogen.
But there’s a problem: M. tuberculosis grows so slowly because it takes a long time to build its unusually fatty, thick cell wall, which is a formidable enemy to the immune system. White blood cells struggle to penetrate the cell wall and kill the bacteria from within. In fact, it’s so hard for infection-fighting cells to penetrate the bacteria’s cell what that, instead, white blood cells usually surround it, creating a call of calcifying tissue known as a tubercle.”
And so for many hundreds of years, TB was a bit like leprosy. Something of a feared disease that could get you cast out of society, but also had that strange creative element attached to it.
But this was an era when death was just very common.
“Before vaccination, C-sections, infection control, and antibiotics, the death of children was routine. About half of all humans ever born died before the age of five. Child death was so common that it had to be acknowledged as natural. And so the acceptable times to die in much of the premodern world were 1. Early childhood, or 2. Late in adulthood.
But tuberculosis has long been known for sickening and killing those between twenty and forty-five, during the one period of life when you were supposed to be relatively insulated from illness and death.”
This was a book we bought randomly in October 2025 based on its cover. We like yellow, we love the Wellcome Museum in London, so we picked up a copy as what the hey.
It’s one of those lucky moments as Everything is Tuberculosis is a fine work. It’s tragic, inspired, at times funny, and highlights the precariousness of life on this Earth. It’s only in the last 50 years or so across all of human history that we’ve more or less banished this disease from western society.
Roy Porter’s excellent 2002 work Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine reminded us of that, too. How lucky we’ve been to exist in the last half century, coinciding with some actual proper medical understanding.
As in England, if someone you knew got TB tomorrow that’d be considered really bizarre.
Yet, for a long time it was the norm and, for some people, almost a desirable thing. As within that suffering, people penned poetry and are remembered to this day for it. That romantic concept of a tortured genius again.
And a Bit About the Writer John Green
John Green is a American author and YouTuber most famous for his 2012 book The Fault in Our Stars Adapted into a film in 2014). He’s also hosted the innovative podcast/non-fiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed from 2018-2021.
For over a decade, he’s been a major global health advocate and is a trustee for Partners in Health. Everything is Tuberculosis has a big focus on Sierra Leone and its poverty crisis, with one individual called Henry documented throughout the work.
Green met Henry when he was 17, but the nature of TB meant he looked like a young boy. Happily, Henry was able to get a proper treatment regime and is alive and well.
But the book really did make it clear to us how lucky we’ve been. How diseases like TB that seem to belong in a past age are, in fact, still causing havoc across less fortunate regions of the world. Sierra Leone is so poverty stricken as the British Empire designed a railroad system to get all accumulated wealth out of the country as fast as possible. The pernicious nature of that system is still felt to this day.
Due to Green’s status, Everything is Tuberculosis was a hit and topped the New York Times bestsellers list, remaining in the list for some 23 weeks.
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How unhealthy ultra‑processed foods are designed and marketed to make us crave them
Why we keep eating UPFs UPFs are the most processed foods on the market. According to medical journal…
#NewsBeep #News #Nutrition #and #are #CA #Canada #Consumption #Crave #designed #despite #drinks #evidence #foods #growing #Health #how #including #make #marketed #meals #ready #snacks #Soft #them #they #to #ultraprocessed #unhealthy #us #worldwide
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/468398/ How unhealthy ultra‑processed foods are designed and marketed to make us crave them #and #are #Consumption #Crave #designed #despite #Drinks #Éire #evidence #Foods #growing #Health #how #IE #including #Ireland #make #marketed #meals #Nutrition #ready #snacks #soft #them #they #To #ultraprocessed #unhealthy #US #worldwide
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/937719/ How unhealthy ultra‑processed foods are designed and marketed to make us crave them #and #are #consumption #crave #Designed #despite #drinks #evidence #Foods #growing #Health #how #including #make #marketed #meals #Nutrition #ready #Snacks #Soft #them #they #to #UK #Ultraprocessed #unhealthy #UnitedKingdom #us #worldwide
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@agatesfrommexico Indeed so. The idea that #renewable #energy, & the #minerals that go with it, is environmentally & socially cost-free, is a complete nonsense. That said, #renewables are still vastly preferable to #fossilfuels & #nuclear - so we just have to find a way of making them compatible, somehow, with #social & #environmental #justice. Clearly, we MUST reduce energy #consumption & #waste.
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The pineapple pizza debate isn't about food—it's manufactured tribal warfare that lets you perform strong opinions about something completely meaningless while avoiding actual substance.
#consumption #culture #food #pizza #preferences
https://riftlymedia.com/pineapple-pizza-tribal-identity-meaningless-conflict/
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/clean-energy-generation-exceeded-rise-global-electricity-demand-2025; https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/04/Global-Electricity-Review-2026.pdf. "All of last year’s #growth in global #electricity #demand was met from renewable sources, while #fossilfuel #power #generation remained flat, #research has found, marking what many hope could become a turning point in the drive to phase out planet-heating #fossilfuels." (1) Growth isn't the same thing as total generation; (2) Electricity #consumption isn't the whole of #energy consumption; (3) Sorry, but the #renewables paradise isn't here yet!
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@bss It can't, by its very nature. #Capitalism depends on #economic & #demographic #growth - ever-increasing #production of #goods & #services, & #consumption of them, with consumption of the #materials & #energy needed to produce them, alongside more #workers & #consumers. The result is #resource #scarcity, #waste, #pollution, loss of #wildlife #Habitat & #biodiversity, #GHG #emissions & #climatechange. A crash is inevitable.
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Harmful and unwanted marketing messages
Amsterdam becomes first capital city to ban meat and fossil fuel adverts >>
https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/amsterdam-bans-meat-adverts-in-public'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts
"We know that advertising is a really major driver of unsustainable consumption." >>
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260217-the-cities-banning-fossil-fuel-adverts#FossilFuel #advertising #UnsustainableBehaviour #climate #GHG #cars #meat #consumption #spam #Ads
Image: Giant car ad with car infrastructure. People engaging in active mobility on a small strip
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The fuel crisis and Australians’ love affair with petrol guzzling monster cars
Now that the government is spruiking BIG car owners to "unload excess weight" and do their 'little bit' because of dwindling reserves, we are looking back on last year 's headlines to unravel how we got here.:
" Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/australian-suv-huge-ute-obsession-roads-more-dangerous* Big cars are increasing Australia’s emission and fuel bills – but what are the alternatives for families?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/30/australia-fuel-efficient-family-cars-guide-best* ‘You have unmet needs’: the psychology behind Australia’s love affair with big cars
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/15/you-have-unmet-needs-the-psychology-behind-australias-love-affair-with-big-cars* Road hogs: what is Australia’s love of big cars costing us all?
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/16/road-hogs-what-is-australias-love-of-big-cars-costing-us-all* The cars eating Australia: should we be trying to reverse our attraction to SUVs and utes?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/17/the-cars-eating-australia-should-we-be-trying-to-reverse-our-attraction-to-suvs-and-utes** The Government launches $20 million fuel saving campaign: "Every little bit helps" Along with asking the public to consider using their car less, the ads promote tips to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, such as "driving smoothly" and "unloading excess weight". >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-11/government-launches-multi-million-dollar-fuel-saving-campaign/106555004Image: Australia loves huge SUVs and trucks. First Dog on the Moon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/australia-loves-huge-suvs-and-trucks-will-nobody-think-of-the-car-parks#FossilFuel #fuel #petrol #cars #vehicles #SUVs #CarDependency #PetrolDependency #EnergySecurity #consumption #climate #pollution #RaodTrauma #BigCars #BigCarparks #FuelGuzzlers #FuelSaving #TaxPerks #NegativeExternalities #RoadFatalities #RoadDeaths #speed #pedestrians #MobilityDesign #governance #Australia #love #big #ExcessWeight #roads
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Macau Launches Community Consumption Campaign to Support Local Businesses
📰 Original title: Merchants hope for spending boost as community consumption campaign set to kick off
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/macau-launches-community-consumption-campaign-to-support-local-businesses/?redirpost=fadac5e5-99cf-49ac-b4bd-22c72e56d437
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Macau Launches Community Consumption Campaign to Support Local Businesses
📰 Original title: Merchants hope for spending boost as community consumption campaign set to kick off
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/macau-launches-community-consumption-campaign-to-support-local-businesses/?redirpost=fadac5e5-99cf-49ac-b4bd-22c72e56d437
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Macau Launches Community Consumption Campaign to Support Local Businesses
📰 Original title: Merchants hope for spending boost as community consumption campaign set to kick off
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/macau-launches-community-consumption-campaign-to-support-local-businesses/?redirpost=fadac5e5-99cf-49ac-b4bd-22c72e56d437
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In the past year Germany seized a record amount of cannabis. According to the "FAZ", customs alone took more than 50 tons. In 2024 police and customs together c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40123 | #news #consumption #drives #legalisation #smuggling
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In the past year Germany seized a record amount of cannabis. According to the "FAZ", customs alone took more than 50 tons. In 2024 police and customs together c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40123 | #news #consumption #drives #legalisation #smuggling
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In the past year Germany seized a record amount of cannabis. According to the "FAZ", customs alone took more than 50 tons. In 2024 police and customs together c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40123 | #news #consumption #drives #legalisation #smuggling
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In the past year Germany seized a record amount of cannabis. According to the "FAZ", customs alone took more than 50 tons. In 2024 police and customs together c... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40123 | #news #consumption #drives #legalisation #smuggling
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Some big picture thinking, condensed.
#zen #consciousness #god #religion #faith #reason #love #consumption #oligarchy #breathe #BreatheThinkFlow #BigPicture #BigPictureThinking
https://www.astraea.net/blog/zen-god-religion-and-the-cosmic-rhythm/
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The “shifting of the intergenerational burden” - more frequent and extreme disasters
"The next generation of Australian workers will cop a $185,000 bill over their lifetimes if the country does not act more urgently to address the climate crisis."
“We have been kicking this can down the road so future generations will have to bear more of the impact of climate change and pick up the tab for more climate action and the costs of adapting to climate change."
“At some point, if climate change is not addressed, it poses an existential risk to human survival, so it’s right up there. It’s difficult to imagine anything that could or should be ranked higher.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/australia-generation-alpha-faces-185k-bill-over-lifetime-without-urgent-action-on-climate-crisis-report-finds
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A new year's resolution for me was to make this "the year of the album", an attempt to slow down media intake, appreciate the artist, and intentionally enjoy specific music instead of mass-consuming it.
It has not been easy. There are really terrible albums out there, anchored by one great song. Welp, here I go, back to the mines for more punishment.
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Hype for the Future 119H: A Manifesto on Investment
Preamble Unfortunately, society often expects only one (1) approach to a “good life,” based on age and schooling followed by a career site and a possible life to retirement age. Society often expects a form of productivity that is performative rather than authentic, consumption-heavy rather than naturally inclined, and so on. The idea that the system society lives under equate stress and isolation with “productivity” is effectively just one (1) of the many lies told by modern society […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/hype-for-the-future-119h-a-manifesto-on-investment/
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Are Single Serve Wines The Answer To Declining Alcohol Consumption? This NZ Winemaker Is Betting On It https://www.diningandcooking.com/2532560/are-single-serve-wines-the-answer-to-declining-alcohol-consumption-this-nz-winemaker-is-betting-on-it/ #alcohol #answer #are #Betting #consumption #declining #is #it #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #nz; #on #serve #single #the #This #to #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand #winemaker #wines
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Kiwis turn away from beer and wine as alcohol consumption hits all-time low https://www.diningandcooking.com/2531667/kiwis-turn-away-from-beer-and-wine-as-alcohol-consumption-hits-all-time-low/ #according #alcohol #alltime #also #And #aş #away #Beer #beverages #consuming #consumption #data #Drinking #from #highalcohol #hits #Kiwis #less #low #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #quantity #stats #turn #were #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand
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Does #capitalism still deliver, or does it only destroy our living space for #profit?
Anyone who is not completely blind can see the slope is getting steeper. We are like on the Titanic. The iceberg is right ahead. Everyone stares at it like a deer in headlights. Frozen. Or weirdly fascinated. No one moves.
Capitalism does not even need #democracy. It runs just fine in #China. The #rich get richer at breathtaking speed. They gain more power every day. Meanwhile, many people are exploited. Some even go hungry.
#Infrastructure falls apart where it brings no profit. Gains are privatized. Losses are shared by everyone. Capitalism works great for arms races and wars. It also works great for rebuilding after. Only #peace seems to bring too little profit.
#Diseases without profitable drugs are ignored. Human suffering does not always sell well. But social-media #algorithms that shake democracy? Very profitable. Public goods, #privacy, data protection, #ethics — all side characters. Hard to monetize. The #future and sustainability also feel optional when today’s shareholder payout boosts #power and profit.
Why do we believe that people driven by greed and contempt will build a better future? Maybe #humanity does not really care about democracy or ethics. Maybe it only cares about #consumption. Ads promise that buying things will make us #happy. And of course, anyone against capitalism should throw the first #smartphone.
Running water, electricity, full supermarkets — all nice. Until you notice the food is packed with sugar and salt. Fresh fruit and vegetables carry poison. The oceans are overfished. The fish comes with #microplastics as a bonus. Wild animals vanish, pushed out by humans. Only farm animals multiply by the millions. They #suffer. #Nature breaks.
This story does not feel like it has a happy ending. Not if we keep scrolling and call it progress.
#civilization #question #news #system #matrix #politics #economy #business #freedom #mankind #collapse #apocalypse #war #terror #military #crisis #pollution #extinction #emissions #climate #disaster #security #fascism #earth #food #poison #problem
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Does #capitalism still deliver, or does it only destroy our living space for #profit?
Anyone who is not completely blind can see the slope is getting steeper. We are like on the Titanic. The iceberg is right ahead. Everyone stares at it like a deer in headlights. Frozen. Or weirdly fascinated. No one moves.
Capitalism does not even need #democracy. It runs just fine in #China. The #rich get richer at breathtaking speed. They gain more power every day. Meanwhile, many people are exploited. Some even go hungry.
#Infrastructure falls apart where it brings no profit. Gains are privatized. Losses are shared by everyone. Capitalism works great for arms races and wars. It also works great for rebuilding after. Only #peace seems to bring too little profit.
#Diseases without profitable drugs are ignored. Human suffering does not always sell well. But social-media #algorithms that shake democracy? Very profitable. Public goods, #privacy, data protection, #ethics — all side characters. Hard to monetize. The #future and sustainability also feel optional when today’s shareholder payout boosts #power and profit.
Why do we believe that people driven by greed and contempt will build a better future? Maybe #humanity does not really care about democracy or ethics. Maybe it only cares about #consumption. Ads promise that buying things will make us #happy. And of course, anyone against capitalism should throw the first #smartphone.
Running water, electricity, full supermarkets — all nice. Until you notice the food is packed with sugar and salt. Fresh fruit and vegetables carry poison. The oceans are overfished. The fish comes with #microplastics as a bonus. Wild animals vanish, pushed out by humans. Only farm animals multiply by the millions. They #suffer. #Nature breaks.
This story does not feel like it has a happy ending. Not if we keep scrolling and call it progress.
#civilization #question #news #system #matrix #politics #economy #business #freedom #mankind #collapse #apocalypse #war #terror #military #crisis #pollution #extinction #emissions #climate #disaster #security #fascism #earth #food #poison #problem
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Does #capitalism still deliver, or does it only destroy our living space for #profit?
Anyone who is not completely blind can see the slope is getting steeper. We are like on the Titanic. The iceberg is right ahead. Everyone stares at it like a deer in headlights. Frozen. Or weirdly fascinated. No one moves.
Capitalism does not even need #democracy. It runs just fine in #China. The #rich get richer at breathtaking speed. They gain more power every day. Meanwhile, many people are exploited. Some even go hungry.
#Infrastructure falls apart where it brings no profit. Gains are privatized. Losses are shared by everyone. Capitalism works great for arms races and wars. It also works great for rebuilding after. Only #peace seems to bring too little profit.
#Diseases without profitable drugs are ignored. Human suffering does not always sell well. But social-media #algorithms that shake democracy? Very profitable. Public goods, #privacy, data protection, #ethics — all side characters. Hard to monetize. The #future and sustainability also feel optional when today’s shareholder payout boosts #power and profit.
Why do we believe that people driven by greed and contempt will build a better future? Maybe #humanity does not really care about democracy or ethics. Maybe it only cares about #consumption. Ads promise that buying things will make us #happy. And of course, anyone against capitalism should throw the first #smartphone.
Running water, electricity, full supermarkets — all nice. Until you notice the food is packed with sugar and salt. Fresh fruit and vegetables carry poison. The oceans are overfished. The fish comes with #microplastics as a bonus. Wild animals vanish, pushed out by humans. Only farm animals multiply by the millions. They #suffer. #Nature breaks.
This story does not feel like it has a happy ending. Not if we keep scrolling and call it progress.
#civilization #question #news #system #matrix #politics #economy #business #freedom #mankind #collapse #apocalypse #war #terror #military #crisis #pollution #extinction #emissions #climate #disaster #security #fascism #earth #food #poison #problem
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Usa, wine market is struggling, but doesn’t collapse. At least for some leaders of the country
That the wine market in t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #ItalianWine #Italianwine #buyer #consumption #dellaterra #DUTIES #export #GRANDILANGHEEILPIEMONTEDELVINO #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #kroger #Markets #prices #SouthernGlazer'sWine&Spirits #USA #Wine #wine.com
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Usa, wine market is struggling, but doesn’t collapse. At least for some leaders of the country https://www.diningandcooking.com/2490207/usa-wine-market-is-struggling-but-doesnt-collapse-at-least-for-some-leaders-of-the-country/ #buyer #consumption #DellaTerra #DUTIES #export #GRANDILANGHEEILPIEMONTEDELVINO #Italia #Italian #ItalianWine #italiano #italy #kroger #Markets #prices #SouthernGlazer'sWine&Spirits #USA #Wine #wine.com
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Crime against wildlife is surging in Australia
Flogging off native animals and plants" Around the world, wildlife and environmental crime is surging. It is estimated to be the fourth largest organised transnational crime sector, and to be growing at a rate two to three times faster than the global economy."
"This is a considerable problem, because Australia has unique and endemic wildlife species, high extinction rates, and is a country that is difficult to police due to its sheer size and vast remote areas. Our new, Australia-first study addresses this knowledge gap."
"We don’t understand the full extent and impact of these crimes in Australia, but we do know they can be disastrous. Wildlife trafficking and illegal trade erodes biodiversity through the removal of native species from their habitats. It also fuels the spread of invasive species, parasites and diseases."
"Over half of the environmental crimes (61.3%) occurred in outer regional and remote areas of Australia. "
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https://theconversation.com/crime-against-wildlife-is-surging-in-australia-these-4-reforms-can-help-tackle-it-273006
#Biodiversity #extractivism #CITES #monetisation #TakeCulture #WildlifeTrafficking #crime #loggingImpacts #deforestation #LandClearing #ecosystems #destruction #Trade #pets #consumption #NativeSpecies #flora #reptiles #birds #extinction #WEC #fishing #harm #exploitation -
A concerning trend is emerging in Germany, suggesting a shift in celebratory customs and potentially reflecting broader societal changes. Recent data released b... https://news.osna.fm/?p=28302 | #news #consumption #declines #german #sharply
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A concerning trend is emerging in Germany, suggesting a shift in celebratory customs and potentially reflecting broader societal changes. Recent data released b... https://news.osna.fm/?p=28302 | #news #consumption #declines #german #sharply
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A concerning trend is emerging in Germany, suggesting a shift in celebratory customs and potentially reflecting broader societal changes. Recent data released b... https://news.osna.fm/?p=28302 | #news #consumption #declines #german #sharply
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https://www.evshift.com/374486/2024-kia-ev9-gt-line-awd-385-ps-kia-ev9-gtline-ev-range-consumption-kwh-electric-car-pov/ 2024 Kia EV9 GT-Line AWD 385 PS #kia #ev9 #gtline #ev #range #consumption #kwh #electric #car #pov #AWD #car #consumption #ELECTRIC #ElectricCar #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #EV9 #GTLine #kia #kwh #pov #Range
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Analysis Of Colorado River Basin Storage Suggests Need For Immediate Action
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https://www.colorado.edu/center/gwc/2025/09/11/analysis-colorado-river-basin-storage-suggests-need-immediate-action <-- shared UC Boulder School Of Law paper
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https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/ <-- shared BuRec Colorado River Basin overview page
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https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/documents/CRWUA-2024-P26-Update.pdf <-- shared BuRec Colorado River Basin Lake Powell & Lake Mead Operations Post-2026 Update 12/05/24 presentation
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033454 <-- shared 2023 paper – “Aridification of Colorado River Basin's Snowpack Regions Has Driven Water Losses Despite Ameliorating Effects of Vegetation”
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#water #hydrology #watermanagement #management #watersecurity #agriculture #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #storage #waterresources #wateruse #agreement #naturalsupply #usecase #reserve #model #modeling #hydrospatial #future #forecasts #climate #recharge #snowpack #massbalance #conservative #dams #BuRec #reservoir #operations #infrastructure #consumption #magicwater
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Analysis Of Colorado River Basin Storage Suggests Need For Immediate Action
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https://www.colorado.edu/center/gwc/2025/09/11/analysis-colorado-river-basin-storage-suggests-need-immediate-action <-- shared UC Boulder School Of Law paper
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https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/ <-- shared BuRec Colorado River Basin overview page
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https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/documents/CRWUA-2024-P26-Update.pdf <-- shared BuRec Colorado River Basin Lake Powell & Lake Mead Operations Post-2026 Update 12/05/24 presentation
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033454 <-- shared 2023 paper – “Aridification of Colorado River Basin's Snowpack Regions Has Driven Water Losses Despite Ameliorating Effects of Vegetation”
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#water #hydrology #watermanagement #management #watersecurity #agriculture #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #storage #waterresources #wateruse #agreement #naturalsupply #usecase #reserve #model #modeling #hydrospatial #future #forecasts #climate #recharge #snowpack #massbalance #conservative #dams #BuRec #reservoir #operations #infrastructure #consumption #magicwater
@CU Boulder Getches-Wilkinson Center Law Center