#wilfulblindness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wilfulblindness, aggregated by home.social.
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An Aboriginal rock shelter was demolished during construction of a Renewable Energy Zone in NSW and the native bird habitat was cleared
Iconoclasm: From cultural landscape to rubble"The Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) demolished the rock shelter during land clearing...It is the same company that was responsible for the displacement of about 60 native bird hatchlings, left homeless after the felling of trees."
"The federal environment department investigated the matter and said it found "no evidence of non-compliance" with conditions under it's environment protection and biodiversity conservation act." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/rez-rock-shelter-destruction-findings/106831784NSW government, energy company under fire after native bird habitat cleared for renewables project >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/nsw-government-renewable-land-clearing-birds/106085764
#biodiversity #wildlife #birds #IndigenousPeoples #AboriginalHeritage #heritage #trust #respect #RenewableEnergy #consumption #CulturalLandscape #destruction #iconoclasm #WilfulBlindness #NSW #conservation -
CW: UK Politics
Diane Abbott asking the question we'd all like to have asked Starmer.
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The ultimate neoliberal “dreamworld” – on desert sand without water
Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling* "The Dubai project requires demanding visitors and expats to not think too much about the suffering or question what goes on beyond the city’s borders. And how that city came to be built in the first place."
"The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/dubai-influencers-expats-denial-middle-east-crisis* Living Well at Others' Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity, Stephan Lessenich, 2019, Polity Press >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=living-well-at-others-expense-the-hidden-costs-of-western-prosperity--9781509525621#WesternProsperity #GlobalInequality #wealth #inequality #externalisation #mobility #Dubai #drylands #settlersociety #WilfulBlindness #CrumblingDreams #FossilFuels #oil #water #war #WarZone #ClimateCrisis
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Does anyone know where in the world there is a coherent politics from a mainstream party that is undermining the rush towards #technofeudalism?
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RT @jembendell
@HowKeen @VandiverAuthor The policy agenda during "The pandemic has created huge tailwinds for tech giants such as Apple and Google by inciting behavioural shifts that will long outlive the health crisis"& thrown 100s of millions into poverty worldwide