Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Hamish van der Ven:
“AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption”
Bonus links: “What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War” and “Inescapable AI” and “The High-Tech Poorhouse” and Mathwashing
Link to a book review by Andy Higginbottom:
“On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism“
Bonus links: The Closing Circle and “The Lesson We Should Have Learned from ‘Silent Spring’”
Link to an article by Marion Nestle:
“Genetic Modification of Basic Food-and-Fuel Crops: Basically All”
Link to an article by Colin Todhunter:
“Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth”
Bonus links: “Weekend Reading: UK Report on Industry’s Role in Poor Health” and “The Stanford Twin Study: Now on Netflix!”
Link to an article by Sandee LaMotte:
“Plastic Chemicals Linked To $249 Billion In U.S. Health Care Costs In 2018 Alone, Study Finds”
Bonus links: “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health — Pesticides, Plastics, Forever Chemicals, and Beyond” and “Twenty Years of Microplastics Pollution Research—What Have We Learned?” and “Nanoplastics are Entering Our Bodies”
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
“Beneath the Polycrisis is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism”
Bonus links: “The Apocalypse is (Still) Disappointing” and “Beating Around the Bush”
Link to an article by Tina Landis:
“Capitalist Urbanization, Climate Change, and the Need for Sponge Cities”
Bonus link: Fossil Capital
Link to an article by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (excerpted from the book Wasteland):
Link to an article by Erica Cirino:
“Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies”
Bonus link: “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health — Pesticides, Plastics, Forever Chemicals, and Beyond” and “Twenty Years of Microplastics Pollution Research—What Have We Learned?” and “Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains”