#theworldisburning — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #theworldisburning, aggregated by home.social.
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#SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!
#OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.
OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.
August 4, 2026
"The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.
"The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "
Read more:
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-summer-camp-influencer-retreat-greenwashing-backlash#NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters
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Canada #WildfireSmoke to be a periodic problem into August across #Midwest, #Northeast
Prevailing winds will direct more wildfire smoke from western #Ontario into the Midwest and Northeast often well into August. Needed rain to put out the fires may be scarce.
By Alex Sosnowski, Jul 20, 2026
Excerpt: " Hundreds of large wildfires are burning across Canada and the United States.
"There are 809 active #wildfires in #Canada, according to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. To date this year, there have been 3,575 fires that have burned 2.7 million hectares.
"Even more fires have burned across the #US. 'So far this year, 40,771 fires have burned more than 3.9 million acres across the United States,' according to the (U.S.) National Interagency Fire Center newsroom. 'Fires in the Northwest and the fires in northern Minnesota pose the greatest demand for firefighting resources. Resource assignments are being prioritized based on life and property risk, operational impact, and probability of success.' "
#WildfireSeason #USPol #WorldPol #ClimateChange #Polycrisis #AQI #WildfireSmoke #ClimateDiary #TheWorldIsBurning
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I fear that the proliferation of expert panels on #ClimateChange is a bit like Randall Munroe's famous cartoon about the proliferation of standards. We don't need more panels, we need to pay more attention to the ones we already have
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#Nero golfs while #Rome burns, eh?
EPA to revoke "endangerment finding," landmark basis for regulating greenhouse gases
By Tracy J. Wholf
Updated on: July 29, 2025"Repealing the finding comes at a time when climate change impacts appear to be reaching new heights as 2024 was the hottest year on record, and natural disasters are growing more intense, destructive and deadly. Since 2010, there have been 246 billion-dollar disasters striking every U.S. state, causing more than $1.7 trillion in damages, and killing more than 7,700 people, according to archived data from NOAA."
#USPol #Environment #EPA #BigOilAndGas #TrumptyDumpty #Oiligarchy #TrumpIsAnIdiot #Idiocracy #TheWorldIsBurning #NeroFiddledWhileRomeBurned
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Now there was I thinking that Sunak encouraging all that fossil fuel extraction was his way of fighting the culture wars, but maybe it's just good old-fashioned corruption.
#Sunak #Rishi #RishiSunak #Corruption #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #TheWorldIsBurning
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The world is mostly run by people of my generation. We'll be dead by the time the really catastrophic effects of climate change are felt in the latter half of this century.
So at first sight, maybe that explains why the people running the world are not taking climate change as the existential threat that it is.
But what I find puzzling: don't any of them have children? Or grandchildren? Or do they all hate their kids?
#ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #TheWorldIsBurning
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It's not unknown for politicians in their last year or so in office to crash and burn their country's economy just to leave their successor with a tricky problem to solve, but crashing and burning the planet's climate is a disturbing new take
#RishiSunak #Rishi #Sunak #ClimateCatastrophe #TheWorldIsBurning
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So, Mr Sunak, are you on the side of stopping the planet burning so that everyone dies, or are you on the side of drivers?
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We, Millennials and Gen Z, are going to be the only generation telling our children how much easier life was back in the day #TheWorldIsBurning