China's CO2 emissions plateau. Arizona's emerging chip cluster. Asian water wars and the "camp life" of revolution.

"China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked."

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(103) Re:Balance - The Basis for A Social Evolution - YouTube

"This short film tells the story of how we as a global society have set up most of the paradigms of how we manage ourselves based on systems and models that are about creating and managing imbalance. We try to make the case that this is why our climate is out of balance and so is our relationship to ourselves and each other.

Our objective is to inspire, empower & reveal the basis for a movement of authentic solidarity; launching a social evolution to understand that dynamic regenerative balance is how the world and universe work.

Here is the platform initiative we set up to begin this process of solidarity:
https://ourworld.solutions/"

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Australia’s Adult Internet Identification law takes hold

"the digital gating is unlikely to stop at just ten sites, and as people get around the ban, new restrictions and sentry posts will spring up across the internet.

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In addition to the extra surveillance, the legislation doesn’t change the nature of the platforms themselves, such as addictive infinite scrolling. Things could have been done to make the platforms better for everyone, but that isn’t what the legislation does.

The impact on adults has been played down, with the emphasis placed instead on horror stories of teenagers who have suffered from online bullying and, on occasion, taken their lives, the implication being that social media was the main cause of the suicide or self-harm, despite the obviously complex situation involved in every such tragedy. Surely such bullying leaves digital traces – could those bullies not be held accountable? Collective punishment is much more to the government’s liking."

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MY SOVEREIGN DECLARATION - by MAATTR

"Today I launched maattr.com. Not as a business website. As a sovereign declaration of what I am and what I’m here to do in a world that is running out of time to learn how.

I am the bridge between two worlds that don’t speak to each other. One world has capital. The other has ground. One has institutions. The other has knowledge that institutions have never embodied. One speaks in projections and models. The other speaks in soil and seasons and the behavior of systems that predate human language.

Humanity’s survival depends on these worlds learning to communicate.

And almost nobody is standing in the space where both are true simultaneously."

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When Help Makes Enemies - by Will Ruddick

" Short-term cash infusions with unclear timelines create a scramble. When aid stops, people assume theft rather than depletion. Rage needs an object; it finds the nearest door.

No accountability loop. Without public ledgers, complaint paths, or appeals, anger goes sideways- into rumor, retaliation, and, sometimes, flames.

I’ve seen the fixes we try: exit ramps, audits, appeals, whistle-blowing, per-household caps, independent stewards, transparent registries. They help. Sometimes they’re life-saving. But there’s a deeper current pulling us back toward the same shore: our culture of allocation.

Allowance, as habit, makes us gatekeepers. Grants, distributions, lists. We reward those nearest the gate and punish those just outside it. We then ask people to trust the gate.

There is another muscle we can build … one our ancestors and many contemporaries still use every day: reciprocity."

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China and Coal: The 'Green China' Myth | National Review

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but what matters at the end of the day is power generation, which still overwhelmingly comes from fossil fuels. All the power lines in the world don’t make you sustainable or energy independent if you’re still having to import and burn tons of fossil fuels.

It's antisemitic to call out Israel's genocide, says the Guardian

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The band Primal Scream had the audacity to tell its audience that the British government is complicit in genocide. They have been reported to the police for doing so
Even the supposedly liberal Guardian uses the term unquestioningly to mean “being nasty about Israel” – a state whose genocidal behaviour towards the Palestinian people over the past two years should mean it is almost impossible to say anything too nasty about it.
Primal Scream were using the Star of David to refer to Israel, just as one would use the Union Flag to refer to the UK.
In other words, Primal Scream’s message wasn't “Hate Jews”. It was that Israel is committing a genocide, like earlier genocidal regimes, and it was shameful that the British government was colluding in these crimes.
That is why every major human rights organisation and the international association of genocide scholars have spoken up against the genocide, and why the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for committing crimes against humanity.
No, it encourages hatred of genocide, which is a good thing.

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