#StripMining

2025-11-19

#Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone

"According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.

According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:

In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.

Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:

Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.

Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.

The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."

#JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

2025-08-07

TechCrunch: Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic. “Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/techcrunch-google-denies-ai-search-features-are-killing-website-traffic/

2025-05-25

Ars Technica: Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris. “The AI Overview box has been a fixture on Google’s search results page ever since its debut a year ago. The feature uses the same foundational AI model as Google’s Gemini chatbot to formulate answers to your search queries by ingesting the top 100 (!) search results. It sits at the top of the page, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/zero-click-searches-googles-ai-tools-are-the-culmination-of-its-hubris-ars-technica/

2025-02-14

#HelsingHX2-Drohne nutzt zur Navigation:

> einen kontinuierlichen Abgleich der Sensorikdaten mit georeferenzierten Kartenbildern

Wird es darum bald (Razzle) #DazzleCamouflage / #LandArt auf Maßstab ganzer Landstriche geben? #MountainTopRemoval, #StripMining, Brandschneisen um Frontverläufe bzw. deren Hinterland zu entstellen? Ein Anreiz mehr für #VerbrannteErde-/#AssetDenial-Strategien? Wäre ruzzischen Kommandanten zuzutrauen.

Aber #Taurus wäre "Eskalationsspirale"?!? 😟

#Helsing #UkraineWar

Thor A. Hoplandhopland@snabelen.no
2024-06-19

We wouldn't be where we are today without #liberal philosophy and principles, but #neoliberals and #clasaicalliberals (or as I'd like to call it, liberalism ♥️ nationalism) sacrifice those things all the time like it's a sport.

You get jaded because the west profits off of #colonization, #wageslavery, #stripmining, the many systems of #exploitation available.

#EU #liberals say "no more race to the bottom", but unethical sure is cheap AND lucrative. Will it stop?

👁️👄👁️👉🎮="X"

corpwatchcorpwatch
2024-04-16

Blackhawk Mining sued by 50 community members after flood prevention dam at company coal strip mine burst and killed 43 people in Lost Creek, Kentucky, in 2022, court trial expected to begin in July

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

faraiwefaraiwe
2023-10-29

Some German idiot spouting stuff against alternative fuels, pushing for minerals for batteries based is pretty typical of the same cretins who closed all reactors and got plants going again.

2023-07-31

AKBELEN FOREST DEFENSE

Turkish villagers have been sprayed with tear gas while attempting to protect the Akbelen Forest from being cleared for coal strip mining this week, campaigners say.

For two years, locals from the Muğla region have kept a constant watch over 780 acres of woodland where Turkish company YK Energy is seeking to expand its coal mine.

Despite an ongoing lawsuit over the site near İkizköy town, forestry clearance workers moved in on Monday 24 July, leading to days of fierce clashes between protesters and police.

#corruption #police #government #YKenergy #coal #stripmining #forest #defenders #climatecrisis #planetarydefense

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-05-07

This will end in tears, strip mining, mass killings, default, more strip mining and, not impossibly, in "Afghanistan has been part of China since ancient times" followed by more strip mining...

#Afghanistan #taliban #ccp #prc #china #rbi #beltandroad #stripmining
@thejapantimes

Fabian A. Scherschel :ver:fabsh@fed.fab.industries
2020-02-02

Frank Karlitschek von #Nextcloud auf der #FOSDEM zur GPL im Firmeneinsatz und zur Bedrohung von Open Source durch Cloud-Provider und #StripMining. Leider ist seine Firma genau das falsche Beispiel... #FOSS #FOSDEM2020

heise.de/newsticker/meldung/FO

2017-12-17

Every time you find a diamond you have to take off an article of clothing. #StripMining

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