"A weak monsoon and years of draining groundwater have parched Chennai, a city of nearly five million people on the southeastern coast of India."

"As the Trump administration rolls back rules meant to curb global warming, new disclosures show that the country’s largest companies are already bracing for its effects. The documents reveal how widely climate change is expected to cascade _...Read More_

"Chennai's severe water shortage has forced restaurants to shut and the city to scramble for solutions."

Notes on the STUFF GLUT: 'Given the volume of consumer choices now available, the retail machine has come to require a ghost - whether algorithm, influencer, or snazzy ad tech - to help a product follow [its consumer] around the web.'

To survive runaway climate change, we must first recognize our relationship to the runaway technosphere and the broader bio-ecosystems on which it relentlessly feeds (by using us as its instruments of extraction).

“Destroying the mild nuisance of headphone jacks comes at two costs: One, it locks people into a system of limited, compatible, proprietary products that are inevitably going to die in a few years. And two, it creates a dilemma at the _...Read More_

"Scientists reveal one million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report"

Related to the Pentagon's 2014 report on climate change being a key threat multiplier and basis for all training and infrastructures thereafter. "For Pinkerton, the bet is twofold: first, that there’s no real material difference between _...Read More_

Selling Miami's last 50 years "He said that because the hurricanes came from the tropics, from the south and this was the west side of Miami Beach, they were not that bad in this neighborhood. “Oh, right,” I said, as if that made any _...Read More_