#enviornment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #enviornment, aggregated by home.social.
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England faces water supply gap of nearly five billion litres a day by 2055
England is heading towards a severe water supply deficit unless urgent action is taken, according to new government…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #ClimateChange #drought #enviornment #GreatBritain #Kent #london #ThamesWater #Water #waterstress
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/731160/ England faces water supply gap of nearly five billion litres a day by 2055 #Britain #ClimateChange #drought #England #enviornment #GreatBritain #Kent #london #ThamesWater #UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #WaterStress
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Green Rameswaram Trust (under VK-NARDEP), has been honoured with the Governor's Award 2025 for Environmental Protection (Institution Category). The award was presented by the Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu at Lok Bhavan, Chennai, on 26 January 2026. Shri Ramakrishnan ji, Prakalpa Pramukh, VK-NARDEP received the award, a recognition of committed service towards a greener and more sustainable future.
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Michael Grunwald on the environmental risks of big agriculture https://www.byteseu.com/1558222/ #Agriculture #AnimalAgriculture #enviornment #environment #FactoryFarming #farming #GlobalWarming #NewsAndPublicAffairs
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/518003/ King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret Podcast Recording #BritishRoyalFamily #CateBlanchett #Charles #CharlesIII #enviornment #Fashion #KingCharles #KingCharlesIII #Podcasts #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #Royals
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King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret Podcast Recording
Both Blanchett and King Charles have advocated for issues of sustainability and the protection of biodiversity, topics discussed…
#RoyalFamilies #Royal #Royals #Europe #Europa #EU #BritishRoyalFamily #cateblanchett #charles #CharlesIII #enviornment #fashion #kingcharles #kingcharlesiii #podcasts #RoyalFamily #royals
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#DataCenters #Enviornment #PowerGrid
America’s AI industry faces big energy and environmental risks
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-centers-growth-environment-electricity
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#DataCenters #Enviornment #PowerGrid
America’s AI industry faces big energy and environmental risks
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-centers-growth-environment-electricity
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#DataCenters #Enviornment #PowerGrid
America’s AI industry faces big energy and environmental risks
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-centers-growth-environment-electricity
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#DataCenters #Enviornment #PowerGrid
America’s AI industry faces big energy and environmental risks
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-centers-growth-environment-electricity
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/496536/ Prince William and Gisele Bündchen Join Forces for Climate Campaign in Brazil #BritishRoyalFamily #Catherine #CatherineMiddleton #climate #enviornment #GiseleBundchen #KateMiddleton #london #PrinceGeorge #PrinceOfWales #PrinceWilliam #PrincessOfWales #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #RoyalWatch #Royals #UKRoyalFamily #William
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Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?
There’s a justified horror many people feel about the environmental impact entailed every time someone shares a prompt with a language model. While I’d be lying if I said I fully share that feeling, I experience something similar when I see pointless uses of image and video models. I’ve largely stopped making AI-generated images for this reason. I almost never have a real need to do it, unlike the other ways I use LLMs. I can understand that what I feel about these uses mirrors what others feel about all, or nearly all, uses of LLMs.
Why, then, do we so rarely see a platform like TikTok discussed in these terms? As a commuter whose brain is wired in a way that public-transport cacophony can be mildly agonising, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. The soundscape I find most difficult is when multiple people are absently flicking through short-form videos without ever watching one in full: each playing a couple of seconds from a whole sequence of clips, creating a disordered, overlapping noise on all sides. At this point, I find it almost impossible to tune out.
One estimate suggests that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint may already exceed that of Greece. Mobile video is intrinsically energy-intensive, and the platform’s design encourages distracted browsing. For most users, it’s also a profoundly passive space: they consume rather than create, often in ways that feel distracted and subjectively unsatisfying. There’s something increasingly grotesque about this: a sense of people hypnotised by an object that simultaneously erodes their capacity to focus. It feels almost like a cruel joke: a self-fragmenting obsession.
What strikes me as odd is that we feel so little moral unease about TikTok on these grounds, while generative AI attracts so much: and, for the most part, rightly so. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not suggesting either/or, but both/and. Our analysis of the environmental impact of digital activity needs to encompass the whole platform landscape, and it needs to recognise the link between distracted engagement and (environmentally) wasteful use.
#capitalism #enviornment #LLM #moralUnease #sustainability #TikTok
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When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic – National
Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking. A tree physiologist said that several…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #Enviornment #Fire #Science #Wildfires
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"The virus is found in cottontail rabbits, especially during the summer months, when there is higher rabbit density and insect activity."
#weird #weirdnews #mutants #wildlife #enviornment #odd #animals #ecology #biology #strange #infection #virus #epidemic #cringe #scarey
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/colorado-rabbits-seem-to-be-growing-horns-and-tentacles-whats-behind-frankenstein-rabbits-185401321.html -
"The virus is found in cottontail rabbits, especially during the summer months, when there is higher rabbit density and insect activity."
#weird #weirdnews #mutants #wildlife #enviornment #odd #animals #ecology #biology #strange #infection #virus #epidemic #cringe #scarey
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/colorado-rabbits-seem-to-be-growing-horns-and-tentacles-whats-behind-frankenstein-rabbits-185401321.html -
"The virus is found in cottontail rabbits, especially during the summer months, when there is higher rabbit density and insect activity."
#weird #weirdnews #mutants #wildlife #enviornment #odd #animals #ecology #biology #strange #infection #virus #epidemic #cringe #scarey
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/colorado-rabbits-seem-to-be-growing-horns-and-tentacles-whats-behind-frankenstein-rabbits-185401321.html -
"The virus is found in cottontail rabbits, especially during the summer months, when there is higher rabbit density and insect activity."
#weird #weirdnews #mutants #wildlife #enviornment #odd #animals #ecology #biology #strange #infection #virus #epidemic #cringe #scarey
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/colorado-rabbits-seem-to-be-growing-horns-and-tentacles-whats-behind-frankenstein-rabbits-185401321.html -
"The virus is found in cottontail rabbits, especially during the summer months, when there is higher rabbit density and insect activity."
#weird #weirdnews #mutants #wildlife #enviornment #odd #animals #ecology #biology #strange #infection #virus #epidemic #cringe #scarey
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/colorado-rabbits-seem-to-be-growing-horns-and-tentacles-whats-behind-frankenstein-rabbits-185401321.html -
As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth
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As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth
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As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth
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As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth
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As a society, are we experiencing a mass psychosis and becoming disconnected from the reality that is the natural world around us? #enviornment #mentalhealth
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Why Michigan lights wildland fires on purpose in its rarest natural habitats
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Several rare Michigan natural habitats require fire not just to thrive, but to survive.…
#Environment #Demonstration #ecology #enviornment #fire #generalnews #landconservancyofwestmichigan #lcwm #learn&burn #Michigan #michiganprescribedfirecouncil #mpfc #parks-recreation #rockford #saullakebognaturepreserve #wildlife
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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro
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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro
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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro
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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro
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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k36v50zvro
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#oilcompanies are being held accountable for destruction of land in #louisiana #oil #enviornment #chevron
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#oilcompanies are being held accountable for destruction of land in #louisiana #oil #enviornment #chevron
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#oilcompanies are being held accountable for destruction of land in #louisiana #oil #enviornment #chevron
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#oilcompanies are being held accountable for destruction of land in #louisiana #oil #enviornment #chevron
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#oilcompanies are being held accountable for destruction of land in #louisiana #oil #enviornment #chevron
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Finland Shuts Down Its Last Utility-Scale Coal Plant https://www.ecowatch.com/finland-coal-plant-closing.html
#Finland #enviornment #energy #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal
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Finland Shuts Down Its Last Utility-Scale Coal Plant https://www.ecowatch.com/finland-coal-plant-closing.html
#Finland #enviornment #energy #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal
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Finland Shuts Down Its Last Utility-Scale Coal Plant https://www.ecowatch.com/finland-coal-plant-closing.html
#Finland #enviornment #energy #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal
