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Birth
Environment
Basics
- CEE Quotes
& Success
for Society - Environment (PWP).
- A Timeline of Earth's Average
Temperature [Since 20,000 BCE. Fun cartoon.].
- Climate
Crisis for Beginners (Usborne)
[Great for children].
- Emergency
on Planet Earth [Extinction Rebellion scientists community
answer explain so many of the issues and likely outcomes].
- Evidence
(NASA).
- The
Case for Climate Justice (Global
Justice Now) [PDF comic].
- 'We
should be scared stiff' (The Guardian, 2007)
[James Lovelock on how Europe will soon be uninhabitable desert.
Millions will start moving north. The British Isles will be among the
few island oases in a world given over to desert, scrub and oceans
devoid of life - spared because global warming will be cancelled out by
a fall in temperature due to the failure of the Gulf Stream. Most life
will move up to the Arctic
basin because only it and a few islands will remain
habitable. By
2040/2050.].
- Climate
change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million
years (Stanford University,
Phys.org, 2013) [And it's accelerating].
- What’s
Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg, 2015).
[Shows that it is not: Earth’s orbit, the Sun, volcanoes,
deforestation, ozone pollution, aerosol pollution. It is greenhouse
gases (CO2, CH4, H2O).].
- 20
Random Reasons to Really Love Trees (Melissa Breyer,
Treehugger, 2018).
- Humans
are the dominant influence on climate (Prof. Katharine Hayhoe,
X, 2018; unrolled here)
[She shows why, considering many
common denier arguments].
- What
evidence exists that Earth is warming and that humans are the main
cause? (David Herring & Rebecca Lindsey,
NOAA, 2020, updated 2022).
- The
Great Acceleration since 1950 in Graphs (XR Cambridge,
X, 2020;
unrolled here).
- How the
oil industry made us
doubt climate change (BBC, 2020)
[Same evil tactics as
tobacco, pesticides,
plastic, sugar industries].
- Biodiversity: Why the nature crisis matters,
in five graphics
(BBC, 2020).
- A
global warming of 1.8° F (1° C) seems small, so why is
this change in global temperature a concern? (NOAA, 2020).
- The
Sky’s the Limit: Solar and wind energy potential is 100 times
as much as global energy demand (Carbon
Tracker, 2021) [Far higher than fossil
fuels and can meet global energy demand many times over, unlocking huge
benefits for society].
- ‘Case
closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused
by humans (The Guardian, 2021)
[Similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics].
- What
is climate
change? A really simple guide (BBC, 2021).
- The
climate crisis in 28 seconds (Asad Rehman,
COP26, X, 2021) [28s video].
- Global
nightmare: What happens if humanity doesn’t take real action
against climate change (Marshall Brain, WRAL
TechWire, 2022) [Degrowth
is also needed].
- The
Age of Extinction Is Here — Some of Us Just Don’t
Know It Yet & The
Last of Our Kind (Umair Haque, Medium, 2022).
- Greta
Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been
greenwashed
out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’
(The Guardian, 2022).
- Risks
of Ecosystem Crash-Landings (Robert Hunziker,
CounterPunch, 2025) [If you only read one article on the
CEE, this may be the one].
- We're
Going Extinct (Roger Hallam, YouTube, 2025)
[39m31s video. For an AI summary, read this
highlighted comment.].
Videos
- Global
Dimming (BBC Horizon, Dailymotion, 2005; also here)
[Human-caused atmospheric
pollution acts as
a mirror (to the Sun). It has cooled the Earth and masked global
warming (due to human-caused
greenhouse gases). As we stop polluting - as we must, for health and
weather
reasons - global warming will accelerate rapidly. So, a
10°C/18°F
increase is likely by 2100. Also see here.]
[~49m4s].
- Wake
Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip (Leo Murray,
Vimeo, 2008)
[11m34s].
- Climate
change is simple (David Roberts, TEDx, YouTube,
2012)
[17m43s].
- Envisionation
Interview: David Wasdell On the IPCC & Scientific Voice
(YouTube, 2012) [IPCC is political,
not scientific] [8m].
- Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By
2°C?
[2m35s]; 3°C?
[1m47s]; 4°C?
[1m57s]; 5°C?
[2m40s] (Sky News, YouTube, 2015).
- Prof.
Will Steffen explains the Climate Crisis in 2 minutes (X,
2016)
[2m12s].
- Three
Seconds (Spencer Sharp & Prince Ea,
#Film4Climate 1st Prize Short Film Winner, Vimeo, 2016)
[If you condense Earth's lifespan of 4.5 billion years into one day,
will humans survive to the fourth second of their presence on Earth?] [4m17s].
- What's
the Big Deal With a Few Degrees? (Global
Weirding with Prof Katharine Hayhoe, YouTube, 2019)
[In daily life, ambient temperature changes a lot, so why panic? In the
CEE the temperature change is a global average, so it can be compared
to a prolonged fever in the human body. A few degrees difference can be
very debilitating and dangerous. And it is happening so fast.] [9m4s].
- Climate
Change: The Facts
(BBC, 2019 documentary with David Attenborough)
[57m34s].
- Extinction:
The Facts
(BBC, 2020 documentary with David Attenborough)
[58m].
- The
Secret History Of Climate Change (Cogito,
YouTube, 2020) [16m14s].
- Is
it time to reassess our relationship with nature? (BBC
Ideas, 2020) [4m44s].
- The
Shaman's Message (Instituto Socioambiental,
YouTube, 2020)
[Powerful] [2m15s].
- 'We're
looking at Billions of People not being able to Survive'
(Peter Carter & Roger Hallam, YouTube, 2021)
[41m20s].
- 13
educational videos (The Story of Stuff
Project, YouTube, 2021) [from 2m
to 22m].
- Greta
Thunberg speech (Schwarzenegger Climate
Initiative, YouTube, 2021)
[Brilliant, speaking truth to power] [7m50s].
- How the
Media helped create Climate Change (George Monbiot,
Double Down News, YouTube, 2021) [9m39s].
- The
climate crisis in 28 seconds (Asad Rehman,
COP26, X, 2021) [28s].
- Don't Look Up
(2021) [Movie. The asteroid is a metaphor
for the
CEE. Stars include Leonardo
DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep. Trailers: full,
teaser.]
[2h18m].
- World on
'fast track to climate disaster', say UN secretary general (The
Guardian, YouTube, 2022) [Massive switch to renewables
needed
right now] [2m16s].
- Global
warming, our future is disappearing (Greenpeace,
X, 2022) [Wow!] [43s].
Videos
- Funny
- Climate
Science Breakthrough [YouTube channel that translates climate
science. Professors vs. Comedians, including: Jonathan
Pie, Kiri
Pritchard-McLean, Nish Kumar,
Jo
Brand, Jon
Stewart, David
Cross.].
- Too late
to stop Climate Change? (ClimateAdam, YouTube,
2020)
[Fun, educational] [5m24s].
- Honest
Government Ad - The Fires (The Juice
Media, YouTube, 2020) [How to gaslight a nation.
Adaptation will
be easy. Get
used to it. You're on your own, dickheads.] [3m26s].
- Climate
Change Is An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why (UpIsNotJump,
YouTube, 2020) [Fun, factual, fast-paced] [30m6s].
- Honest
Government Ad - Carbon Capture and Storage (The
Juice Media, YouTube, 2021) [4m44s].
- Honest
Government Ad - Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta) (The
Juice Media, YouTube, 2021) [3m45s].
- Jonathan
Pie: The World's End (Spanner Films, YouTube,
2021)
[Sad yet hilarious exposé of COP26 - with George Monbiot,
Caroline Lucas & Ed Miliband] [23m2s].
- The Earth
is dying (Foil Arms and Hog, YouTube, 2022) [2m36s].
- COP27
downfall (Christopher C, YouTube, 2022)
[Uses oft-memed Hitler clip] [4m3s].
- Anti
Environmentalism (Foil Arms and Hog, YouTube,
2024) [1m51s].
 Modern Ark (Adene;
fair use, educational)
Air
Pollution
Heatwaves
- Tips
by Bitchcraft & Niggatry and many others (X
thread, 2021; unrolled here).
- Canada
is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans
(Simon Lewis, The Guardian, 2021).
- Beat
the heat: how to stay cool in hot weather (Linda Geddes,
The Guardian, 2022).
- Heatwave:
When is it too hot to work? (BBC, 2022)
[UK focus].
- Body
shock: six ways the heat affects the human body (Katherine
Latham, The Guardian, 2022).
- Australian
on handling heatwaves without an air conditioner (Dr Ellie
Mackin Roberts, X thread, 2022).
- How
the boom in air conditioning is fuelling global heating
(Jeremy Plester, The Guardian, 2022) [A
vicious cycle].
- TikToker
Shares ‘Life Hack’ to Keep Cool Without AC
(YouTube, 2022) [28s video].
Organisations
Now is not a good time
(Unknown source; fair use, educational)
Resources
- CEE Quotes
(PWP).
- Climate
Emergency Centres (CEC)
[Establish one in your community!].
- George
Tsakraklides [He can give deep insight into
"civilisational collapse and humanity’s inevitable
self-destruction"].
- The Lorax
(Dr Seuss,
1971)
[Are you a Once-ler who
says stopping business as usual is impractical? Or do you care a whole
awful lot?].
- So
you're ready to take action against climate change... (J
Ferorelli, 2018) [Flowchart].
- An
Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate
Breakdown Part
1, Part
2, Part
3 (Prof Julia Steinberger, Medium, 2018).
- Opinion
- How to live with the climate crisis without becoming a nihilist
(Peter
Kalmus, Los Angeles Times, 2019).
- We Can Use Less Energy and Still Have Good
Lives (Gizmodo,
2020).
- Decent
living for all does not have to cost the Earth (Leeds
University, 2020).
- 'We've had so many wins': why the green
movement can overcome climate crisis (Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 2020).
- How affluent people can end their mindless
overconsumption (Jag
Bhalla & Eliza Barclay, Vox, 2020).
- 9
things you can do about climate change (Imperial College,
2021)
- 5
best and 5 worst things a person can do for the climate
(Peter Kalmus, 2021).
- Why
you don’t give a f#*k about climate change (but these 6 GIFs
can fix that) (Will Essilfie & Clare Saxon Ghauri,
Medium, 2021).
- The
climate crisis is global, but councils can offer local solutions
(Stephen Smellie, The Guardian, 2021)
[With government support, councils can lead the way in generating clean
energy, insulating housing and reskilling staff].
- Want
to fight for climate action but feel daunted or powerless? Try this
(Tayo Bero, The Guardian, 2021)
[Pressure organisations: employer, university, union,
religion].
- False
Narratives /Myths/Propaganda… (Mark Cranfield,
X, 2021).
- Here’s
how to demolish the most common excuses for climate crisis apathy
(Elizabeth Cripps, The Guardian, 2022).
- Six
promises you can make to help reduce carbon emissions (The
Guardian, 2022).
- Anarchy,
war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency
and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era (Benjamin K.
Sovacool & Alexander Dunlap, Energy Research
& Social Science, 2022).
- GB
News BS debunked (Dr. Aaron Thierry,
X, 2022) [Also see here,
here].
Some of the accounts that
PWP consults (listed alphabetically):-
CEE protester, Earth &
police (Unknown source; fair use, educational)
Articles
etc.
- Population Control & Cybertron
& Elysium (PWP).
- Decolonize Conservation (Survival) [also join the call here!].
- Stop
using China as an excuse for inaction on climate change (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2015)
[Invoking Yellow Peril tropes over China’s carbon footprint
fails
to recognise the fact its energy use is tied to our consumption, the
country’s coal demand is dropping and Chinese people care
more
about climate than we do].
- Climate action must now focus on the global
rich and their corporations (The Conversation, 2018).
- Facing
Extinction
(Catherine Ingram,
SoundCloud, 2019)
[Great 1½h overview, but, for me, too much doom, not enough Angel - though she/others
will see me as delusional. She removed the essay from her
website as some of it is obsolete.].
- Beware far-right arguments
disguised as environmentalism (The Conversation, 2020).
- Deep
Adaptation (Prof Jem Bendell, 2020).
- World's
richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
(The
Guardian, 2020).
- Johnson's pledges on the environment are
worthless. Worse is how cynical they are (George Monbiot, The
Guardian, 2020).
- 'Uninhabitable hell': UN report lays bare the
reality of climate change
(NZ
Herald, 2020).
- Capitalism
Will Ruin the Earth by 2050, Scientists Say (Vice,
2020) [Degrowth!].
- The
Climate Movement Must Be Ready To Challenge Rising Right-Wing
Environmentalism
(Sam Knights, Jacobin, 2020) [On ecofascism].
- 1%
of people cause half of global aviation
emissions – study (The
Guardian, 2020).
- Global
soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns
UN report (The
Guardian, 2020).
- Climate
change:
Global 'elite' will need to slash high-carbon lifestyles (BBC,
2020).
- Top
scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate
disruption (The Guardian, 2021).
- UN
global climate poll: ‘The people’s voice is clear
– they want action’ (The
Guardian, 2021) [Two-thirds think it's a global
emergency].
- The
Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth's Ancient Rock Record
(Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 2021) [Our
climate models could be missing something big].
- There’s
a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it?
(Bill McGuire, Prospect, 2021) [Degrowth].
- Climate
activism isn’t making young people anxious. Climate change is
(Natasha Abhayawickrama, The Guardian, 2021).
- There
are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26?
(Greta Thunberg, The Guardian, 2021)
[Basically, Governments & media deny, lie, kill].
- What
Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words (Benjamin
Franta, The Conversation, 2021).
- ‘A
continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their
voices are missing at Cop26 (The
Guardian, 2021) [They reject the ‘big
business’ approach].
- Cop26
has to be about keeping fossil fuels in the ground. All else is
distraction (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2021).
- Cop26
leaders blame individuals, while supporting a far more destructive
system (Stephen Reicher, The Guardian, 2021)
[It suits governments to lecture us on our consumption, but they need
to offer systemic change to tackle the climate crisis].
- How
rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal
communities (Kendra Pierre-Louis, MIT Technology
Review, 2021) [We will experience groundwater flooding
long before the ocean comes lapping at our front door].
- Climate
emergency is a legacy of colonialism, says Greenpeace UK (The Guardian, 2022) [Global south used
as place to dump waste, people of colour suffering badly].
- DeBunked:
Julia Hartley-Brewer on Climate Forecasts and Heatwaves (DeSmog,
2022) [Also see here].
- Reliance
on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN
official (The Guardian, 2022)
[At the expense of marginalised groups, indigenous peoples].
- Before
the floods I thought climate change wasn’t my problem. Now,
I’m not waiting for someone else to fix it (Ella
Buckland, The Guardian, 2023) [Powerful.
Australia.].
- ‘Climate
negotiations are inherently abusive’: campaigner Brianna
Craft on the struggle smaller countries face (The
Guardian, 2023) [CEE is like Domestic Violence].
- Actors
and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’
and limits on protest (The Guardian, 2023).
- 5
Reasons for Environmentalists to Stop Blaming “Doom &
Gloom” Narratives (Félix de Rosen,
Resilience, 2024).
- The
Specter of Deep-Sea Mining (Eileen Crist,
CounterPunch, 2024) [Fossil fuel ecocide is being
replaced by renewable energy ecocide].
- 💥
Flying from now on is violence (Roger Hallam,
2025) [A civilizational challenge.].
- Plants
losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate
(The Guardian, 2025).
- Natural Family Living
(PWP).
- Life [Wendy Priesnitz
website, a cornucopia of articles].
- Peggy O'Mara
[Veteran editor of Mothering
magazine on Medium].
- Wondrous Beginnings
[Wendy McCarty, Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology pioneer].
- Motherworld
[The
Motherworld is the society where mothers and
the values of mothering – love, care and support for each
other, and for our
Mother Earth and all Her creatures and nature – are placed in
the centre of our
lives, rather than being left out on the periphery. Also
see here.].
Old
People and Ageing
- Ageing & Old People
articles (PWP).
- A
new start after 60 - Stories from people who pursued new passions later
in life (The Guardian).
- LongeviQuest [A
global authority on maximum human longevity, including a database of
supercentenarians].
- What
Good Is Grandma? (David P. Barash, Nautilus, 2016)
[The growing role of grandparents in raising children is right in line
with human biology].
- This
32-year-old is on a mission to end loneliness (BBC,
2018).
- Can
exercise reverse the ageing process? (BBC, 2019).
- Can
you think yourself young? (David Robson, The Guardian, 2022)
[Research shows that a positive attitude to ageing can lead to a
longer, healthier life, while negative beliefs can have hugely
detrimental effects].
- Never
past your prime! 13 peaks we reach at 40 or later – from sex
to running to self-esteem (Emma Beddington, The
Guardian, 2023).
- Saving
‘old and wise’ animals vital for species’
survival, say scientists (The Guardian, 2024)
[Hunting such animals eradicates memories and knowledge crucial to
group survival. Protect them with “longevity
conservation”.].
Other
- Big Life Issues (PWP).
- wikiHow - Free
helpful advice on how to do almost anything with a supportive community.
Peace
Petitions,
Causes, Activism & World Change
Politics
- Politics articles (PWP).
- The Nerd Reich
[About the tech authoritarian politics of Silicon Valley plutocrats].
- The
case for global free movement - Bridges not Borders (Global
Justice Now, 2018) [Comic book simply explains how we
need to treat immigration].
- Should citizens assemblies be mandatory? (The Guardian, 2020).
- Why
does the right keep pretending the left runs Britain? (The
Guardian, 2020)
[Trump/Republicans/GOP does the same in the USA].
- Disruption,
destruction and chaos has become the new way of governing
(The Guardian,
2020).
- Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most
dangerous moment in human history (New Statesman, 2020).
- It
can happen here. It is (The.Ink, 2020) [On
authoritarianism in the USA].
- Democracy
is in decline. Here’s how we can revive it (The
Correspondent, 2020)
[Explains ‘Citizens’ Assemblies’ simply
yet in-depth].
- The Trial
of Julian Assange Should Terrify
Everyone (Matt Kennard, DDN, YouTube, 2020)
[4m41s video].
- The
Tipping Point - Infinite Waters (Ralph Smart, After
Skool, YouTube, 2021) [10m12s video].
- Honest
Government Ad | Democracy™ [Blocked in 🇮🇳] (The
Juice Media, YouTube, 2024) [4m44s video].
- Chris
Hedges: The Cost of Resistance (YouTube, 2024)
[Deep insight] [48m36s video].
- Part
1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No
Return. and Part
2: If the Shit Actually Hits the Fan (Aletheisthenes,
Medium, 2025) [Also see: Part
3, Part
3A, Part
4, Part
5 including Summary;
here.
Although 20 April 2025 has passed, it still seems likely Trump will
impose martial law, e.g. here.].
- This Is
What a Digital Coup Looks Like (Carole Cadwalladr,
TED, YouTube, 2025)
[The international order is collapsing. This is just the start.
Autocracy is underway. We have to learn to disobey
digitally. Must-see. Also see here,
here.]
[17m41s video].
- The
Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology (Émile P. Torres,
Truthdig, 2025).
- How
technocracy has become our reality (The
Listening Post, Al Jazeera English, YouTube, 2025)
[25m11s video. On the fascist cult that rules us.].
- ‘Self-termination
is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
(The Guardian, 2025) [Goliath’s Curse
by Dr Luke Kemp].
- Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique (Norman Solomon, The Guardian, 2025).
Racism
"Racism
is a tool of the rich, to make you think it is that other poor person
with different coloured skin keeping you poor, and not the rich person
blatantly robbing you." (BladeoftheSun, Bluesky, posted and accessed 5 August 2025)
Basics
Videos
- Doll
Test (YouTube, 2012) [So sad. From
the 1940s?] [9m12s].
- Muhammad
Ali: 'Why is
everything white?' (BBC, 1971)
[Brilliant, funny] [2m40s].
- Racism - A
History episode 3 -
A Savage Legacy (BBC4, 2007)
[Brutal must-see from a quality three-part
documentary series] [58m47s].
- How
America moves
beyond its racist past (BBC, 2017)
[15m23s].
- The true
legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation'
(George Monbiot, Double Down News, YouTube, 2018)
[Brilliant exposé. Did history teach you this?] [5m14s].
- Amber
Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic
Run-Ins with Police (YouTube, 2020)
[Helps show how commonplace is
black oppression in the USA] [19m10s].
- Black
Lives Matter:
'How can we win?' Monopoly analogy explained (BBC,
2020)
[Brilliant analogy by Kimberly Jones] [4m2s].
- The story
of Britain's Black Power movement (BBC, 2020)
[6m27s].
- The myth of race (BBC
Ideas, 2021)
[6m47s].
Organisations
& Resources
Articles
- Underclass &
Criminality (PWP).
- Humanae
(Angélica Dass, 2012→)
[An ongoing photographic project by Angélica
Dass. She matches humans she photographs to their exact Pantone colour
equivalent. It is a game to question our colour codes (red, white,
black, yellow). It exposes discrimination as people from vastly
different ethnic backgrounds sometimes wind up with the exact same
Pantone colour. And so it also celebrates unity. “Using this
scale, I am sure that nobody is ‘black,’ and
absolutely
nobody is ‘white,’ she
says.
Whilst Pantone’s library only has 1,867 colours, there are so
many shades of human. And so it is also a “mirror for those
who
cannot find themselves reflected in any label”. Also see: here,
here,
here.].
- White
Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People about Racism
(Dr Robin DiAngelo, PhD, 2015).
- Converting
Hidden Spiritual Racism into Sacred Activism: An Open Letter to
Spiritual White Folks (Virginia
Rosenberg, 2016) [Also published as
'6
Ways Spiritual Thinking Can Reinforce Oppression and Racism' at
Decolonizing Yoga].
- Viewpoint:
Why racism in US is worse than in Europe (BBC,
2018).
- Behind
the legacy of America's blackface (BBC, 2019).
- Should
the term 'racist' be redefined? (BBC, 2019)
[Racism as action or inaction - rather than a permanent label. Racism as systemic - more than
individual.].
- 'I want my
children to
be proud they're black' (BBC, 2020).
- How the long fight for slavery reparations
is slowly being won
(The Guardian,
2020).
- A
corporate, commodified Black History Month is taking hold. We can't let
it (Malaika Jabali, The Guardian, 2021).
- The
invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
(Robert P Baird, The Guardian, 2021)
[Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as
belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was
invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.].
- Ten
years after the English riots, the government is still in denial about
racism (Chloe Peacock, The Guardian, 2021).
- No
more white saviours, thanks: how to be a true anti-racist ally
(Nova Reid, The Guardian, 2021).
- Whoopi
Goldberg’s Holocaust remarks drew on a misguided idea of
racism (Kenan Malik, The Guardian, 2022)
[Whites can be racist to other whites, e.g. WW2 Jews, GRT, Irish,
Slavs. Race has never been simply about black and white.].
- Climate
emergency is a legacy of colonialism, says Greenpeace UK (The
Guardian, 2022) [Global south used as place to
dump waste, people of colour suffering badly].
- The
royals have a duty to the Commonwealth: pay your debts, and apologise
(Prof Nalini Mohabir, The Guardian, 2022)
[Monarchy has been harmful for former colonies. Future without it
needed. Renounce Doctrine
of Discovery. Reparations needed.].
- My
father’s family kept slaves – and he defended it.
Acknowledging it matters (Maud Newton, The
Guardian, 2022)
[Amid a rise of US laws forbidding discussions of racist histories,
sharing our ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings is more urgent
than ever.
Reparations discussed.].
- A
guide to decolonize language in conservation (Survival
International, 2022) [PDF].
- Reliance
on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN
official (The Guardian, 2022)
[At the expense of marginalised groups, indigenous peoples].
- I’m
a white man who wants to signal allyship with people of colour. What
should I do? (Sisonke Msimang, The
Guardian, 2023) [Drowning person analogy].
- Solar Culture (PWP).
- Toward a Solar Civilization
(O.M. Aïvanhov, 1982) [Book. Also
see Prosveta.com
& Prosveta.co.uk , who distribute
his works.].
- The Yoga
of the Sun (YouTube, 2012)
[7m44s Louise-Marie Frenette video with text by O.M. Aïvanhov].
- FreedÔm Génération
TV
[YouTube channel since 2013 with some videos on solar practice. Also
see (in French) FreedÔm Génération.].
- Why look
at the sunrise? (YouTube, 2014)
[9m58s video of 1983 lecture by O.M. Aïvanhov].
- Luminous
Life: How The Science Of Light Unlocks The Art Of Living (Dr
Jacob Israel Liberman, 2018) [Book].
- Imagining
a world without fossil fuels (BBC, 2018)
[2m42s video].
- It's
Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History (Popular
Mechanics,
2020) [Tough
break for fossil fuels].
- ‘Insanely
cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world
(The Guardian, 2021)
[Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the
cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming].
- Let
it shine: the unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin
(Linda Geddes, The Guardian, 2023).
- ‘If
1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how
balcony solar is taking off (Stephen Burgen, The
Guardian, 2024) [Saves ~30% on your
electricity bill and, with vertical surface area in cities larger than
roof space, the appeal is clear].
Technology
- Technology
articles (PWP).
- Succes for Society -
Technology
(PWP).
- The Glamour of New Technology
(PWP).
- Center for Humane Technology
[realigning tech with humanity's best interests].
- Digital
colonialism: the evolution of American empire (Michael Kwet,
Roar, 2021)
[Digital colonialism is the use of digital technology for political,
economic and social domination of another nation or territory. American
“Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits
through
their control over business, labour, social media and entertainment in
the Global South.].
- Constant
craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
(Jamie Waters, The Guardian, 2021)
[Effective tech fasting].
- The
Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology (Émile P. Torres,
Truthdig, 2025)
[Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that
sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is
almost up. We are nothing more than the ephemeral transitional species
that links the biological and digital realms. There is a
“techno-deterministic” view according to which
scientific
and technological “progress” is a juggernaut that
simply
cannot be stopped. There is a “revolt against
humanity”. AI
is greater and these greater beings should not be kept subservient.
They should rule the world. Those that believe this believe that it
would be good to wipe out people and that the AI future would be a
better one. Our species has an expiration date and that date coincides
with the creation of superintelligent AIs. They believe that this
extermination of humanity is ethical. They imagine this transition
beginning in the coming decades, perhaps in the next few years. We
should be trying to stop this from coming to pass with the urgency we
would try to stop a killer asteroid from striking Earth. Why
aren’t we?].
- How
technocracy has become our reality (The
Listening Post, Al Jazeera English, YouTube, 2025)
[25m11s video. On the fascist cult that rules us.].
- Silicon
Valley's Scary New Cult Religion: TESCREAL, with Rev. Otis Moss III and
Dr. Émile Torres (The Nerd Reich with
Gil Duran, YouTube, 2025) [Fascism disguised as faith and
futurism. Brilliant insight. Love hacks the algorithm.
1h10m25s video.].
- American
Conversations: Technology Reporter Gil Duran (HCR,
YouTube, 2025)
[A great overview of technology elite's dystopian vision for human
society. "Network states" are discussed. What to do against this
destruction of democracy?: (1) See the pattern and expose it; (2)
Target corporate infrastructure (e.g. Tesla takedown worked well;
Palantir; Anduril; crypto); (3) Force elected officials to take sides,
you're either for or against democracy, for or against tech fascism;
(4) We don't have to accept this future, we can build alternative
narratives. 26m49s
video.].
- On
the Real-Life Sci-Fi Horror of Silicon Valley (Johnny Damm,
2025) [A new comic on the worldview and future visions of
our Tech Oligarchs].
- The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity (João Camargo, Common Dreams, 2025)
[Techlords will bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a
magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or them as the last
specimens].
- Success for Society - Women
& The
Importance of Women (PWP).
- Women & Failure
& Women
& Failure Quotes (PWP).
- Sexual Consent
& Harassment (PWP).
- Goddess (PWP).
- #SheLeadsInCrisis
(CARE International).
- 100 Women:
Do female leaders improve women's lives? (BBC,
2017).
- 100 Women:
'Why I invented the glass ceiling phrase' (BBC,
2017).
- What
would a city designed by women be like? (BBC,
2019).
- Five
things everyone
with a vagina should know (BBC, 2019).
- Building
collective feminist leadership – unlearning the
“me, me, me” (Feminist
Hiking Collective, 2020).
- The
hidden victims of gaslighting (BBC Future, 2020)
[Gaslighting is also systemic. The affected include: children, women,
racial minorities.].
- Living
in a woman’s body: our fists raised in defiance, we are
taking back what is ours (V, The
Guardian, 2022).
- Prehistoric
women were hunters and artists as well as mothers, book reveals
(The Guardian, 2022)
[Debunks the simplistic division of gender roles. Women had many roles.
They were not continually pregnant, as they breastfed till children
aged four, which reduces fertility. Cooperation between all members of
the group, regardless of their gender or age, ensured their survival.].
- There’s
no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving
each other (Fatima Bhutto, The Guardian, 2023).
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