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“It’s not just local ecosystems that these data centers are affecting, but it’s also driving death and destruction across the globe.”
Data centers are very much brick and mortar—despite press coverage that suggests that artificial intelligence all happens in the ether somewhere.
“All of the changes that happen economically that are going to harm the most of us and enrich a few of the others are sold to us as inevitable.”
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Post—owned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.
“This budget proposal is one of the worst attacks on the environment that we have seen in our lifetime.”
Numerous media outlets rushed to blame the Iberian blackout on Spain’s push for more renewable energy sources.
An editor’s note said: “This story…has been updated to include additional research.” A more honest note might have read: “We changed this story to keep a sponsor happy.”
Reporting on Cuba’s blackouts have either omitted or paid brief lip-service to the effects of US sanctions on the Cuban economy.
At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on “record heat”—because “heat” will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.
“This is a huge opportunity…to create an energy system that’s rooted in climate justice, that’s rooted in the realities of the changing climate,”
“The fossil fuel industry has a long history of investing in the media in order to manipulate the conversation.”
There is no way to fight climate disruption without fighting climate disrupters.
The response of the nation’s major news organizations to two stories about the Nord Stream sabotage couldn’t have been more different.
By every journalistic standard, the extensive international coverage given to Hersh’s story should have made it big news in the US.
“If just 12 utilities took 1% of their dividends that they paid out to shareholders…that could have prevented disconnections.”
Media complicity in using feigned concern for dead whales to shield fossil fuel interests undermines genuine environmental activism.
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War.
Commentators almost universally fingering Russia as the culprit in the pipeline sabotage, despite the lack of a plausible motive.
Janine Jackson interviewed Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso about her film Powerlands for the September 2, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Powerlands is an award-winning documentary film about resource extraction and its impacts on Indigenous communities around the world. But if that’s all we, as watchers, take […]
