Tag: commodities
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Digital Capitalism is a Mine not a Cloud
Big Tech seeks through abstractions of the ‘cloud’ to hide the depletion of nature and the exploitation and surveillance of labour that lies at the heart of its project to commodify data.
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The Ontology of Electronic Waste
We all know about the false promises of the tech industry, and yet we adopt their myths. A report on the points of contact between squatting and e-waste, on greenwashing at e-waste conferences and on the tools of an anarchist reverse engineering laboratory.
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Earth’s Ecological Boundaries have been Violated. Here are 5 Steps toward Healing.
Article by Liz Kimbrough, originally published on Mongabay According to experts, we have passed the planetary boundary for land systems change — the human-caused loss of forest — and risk destabilizing Earth’s operating systems. Scientists calculate we must retain 85% of tropical and boreal forests, and 50% of temperate forests, to stay within Earth’s “safe…
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Chile to Ban Harmful Single-Use Products over 3 Years
Article by Rachel Teng Ruiqi, originally posted on Mongabay In May 2021, Chile announced a legislative ban on single-use products in the food and beverage industry to take effect over the next three years. Similar bans in other countries and cities also address the crux of the plastic pollution problem — the disposable culture — but…
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