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 “I’m a Microplastics Researcher. Here’s How To Limit Their Dangers” (“only the government can regulate chemicals that make their way into our water, food and products we wear and put on our bodies.” “The burden can’t be on consumers to navigate all of this.”) 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”