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I haven’t really decided what I think about this, but I’m intrigued.
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I love this.
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broccoli!
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EXXON HATES YOUR CHILDREN.
QFT.
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Escape to Chengdu: The Story of the Black Friday Strike 
So, by now you’ve heard that Walmart workers are walking out on strike on Black Friday. Here’s a quick primer on why they’re striking.
Let’s start with the basics. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world. They help set labor standards for almost every country on earth.
this is good. that is all.
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I just ran into this photo by accident. holy hell.
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file under: things that are simultaneously cool and nausea-inducing.
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Spend a few minutes clicking and help FEMA coordinate disaster response nypl:
Our NYPL Labs crowdsourcing projects What’s on The Menu and The Stereogranimator have been knocked offline because of Hurricane Sandy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t channel your working internet connection for good.The Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) have built a tool, in conjunction with the US Civil Air Patrol and FEMA to help coordinate FEMA’s post-disaster response by asking you to help classify building damage in disaster-affected areas. You’re asked to rate photos, taken over the past few days, by the Civil Air Patrol, of disaster-affected areas, and note whether the building damage is light, moderate, or heavy, and from your answers, combined with the judgement of many others, helps inform FEMA as to where their teams are most needed. Think of it as Hot or Not with a humanitarian bent.If you’re missing the NYPL Labs projects or just want to help out, please spend a few minutes of your time (or more) and help make a difference informing disaster responders.
this is fascinating in so many ways.
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“It’s not clear, of course, that the power of the fossil-fuel industry can be broken. The U.K. analysts who wrote the Carbon Tracker report and drew attention to these numbers had a relatively modest goal – they simply wanted to remind investors that climate change poses a very real risk to the stock prices of energy companies.
Say something so big finally happens (a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought wipes out Midwest agriculture) that even the political power of the industry is inadequate to restrain legislators, who manage to regulate carbon.
Suddenly those Chevron reserves would be a lot less valuable, and the stock would tank. Given that risk, the Carbon Tracker report warned investors to lessen their exposure, hedge it with some big plays in alternative energy.”—Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone
So, both of these things have now happened in a single 6-month period. The CNN coverage of the latter has been goddamn sponsored by Clean Coal and other similar right wing energy company propaganda ads, and nobody involved in shaping the mainstream conversation about these issues is batting an eye. I think we have our answer now. We’re soooo fucked.
What I continue to wonder is, where is the counter-propaganda from all of the industries that stand to lose big in the Grim Meathook Future? Insurance and agriculture have a shitload of money. There’s even more than that in coastal real estate around the country. We also just saw how vulnerable tech and online companies are to infrastructure disruption in this storm. If the process must be bought, can’t there at least be some competitive bidding?
(via jddunn)
I truly almost just threw up. what is it going to take?
the insurance companies KNOW and ACKNOWLEDGE that climate-change-driven disasters are on the rise. why doesn’t that create any political or capitalist pressure?
is the oil industry really that powerful and that evil? or are we just that thick-headed?
(via jddunn)
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