Extreme heat - harm from fossil fuels
Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?

"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds"

"Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FossilFuels #liability #litigation #AttributionSci #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #harm #Australia

Trump's deep-sea mining executive order sparks condemnation by scientists and conservationists

'US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open both US and international waters to deep-sea mining, ignoring a global treaty that controls the high seas.."

"The deep sea and the minerals belong to everyone … and so one country cannot go there and expropriate the minerals and keep them for themselves."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/deep-sea-mining-us-executive-order-sparks-condemnation/105224062
#ocean #biodiversity #DeepSeaMining #mining #harm

“Splendour in the Mud”:
Climate breakdown and car dependency put an end to commercial drive-in music activities

A “report found 85% of festivalgoers had been affected by either floods, storms, heatwaves or the threat of bushfires at an event they had attended in the past 12 months.”

The “Splendour in the Mud” festival left tens of thousands of motorists bogged and stranded in torrential rain. Extreme heat from greenhouse gas emission is also eliminating the ‘drive-in’ model for outdoor mass gatherings.
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/30/climate-crisis-could-kill-off-australian-music-festivals-report-warns

The end of the car dependent music festival? >>
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/26/train-in-vain-the-end-of-the-car-dependent-music-festival/
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #cars #traffic #congestion #CarDependency #FossilFuels #harm #DriveIn #MassGatherings #industry #festivals #NoisePollution #EnvironmentalDamage #soil #RiskManagement #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #outdoor #ExternalisedCosts #TheGreatOutdoors #ExtremeHeatwaves #floods #storms #splendour

If you have to be #shady or if you have to tell others to be quiet about your #abusive choices - you are an #abuser who wants to avoid #consequences for your own poor #choices with intentionally trying to #harm others(women under age 60 are their insecurity target, men are safer). It is on you & no one else.

Make Church Street a Clean Air Zone
Low emissions zones are a very quick way to bring down pollution ( NO2 ,PM2.5) and avoid cognitive decline and cancers from combustion traffic.

"Higher emissions from industry and residential combustion, as well as biofuel, coal, and oil and natural gas combustion, were associated with worse language scores."
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/80/5/glaf060/8082041?login=false

Clean air zones
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-a-clean-air-zone
#FossilFuels #vehicles #combustion #cars #traffic #polllution #contaminants #regulation #LEZ #ULEZ #cognition #cancer #Bellingen #ChurchStreet #cafes #alfreco #eateries #CleanAir #PublicHealth #health #harm

” It’s a common refrain: AI is neither good nor bad because that depends on how its used. Professor Anita Say Chan begs to differ. […]
Chan documents how the Big Data on which AI are trained are based on long-standing data infrastructures—sets of practices, policies, and logics—that remove, imperil, devalue, and actively harm people who refuse to conform to racialized patriarchal power structures and the priorities of surveillance capitalism—most pointedly immigrant, feminist, and low-income communities.
[…] Chan dedicates half of the book to amplifying and praising the small-scale, community-led projects of the past and present—from the legendary Hull House’s data visualizations to community data initiatives in Champaign, Illinois. There is much fuel for political outrage in this book and also fodder for solidarity and hope.” "—New Books in Critical Theory

Predatory Data - Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future >

https://newbooksnetwork.com/anita-say-chan-predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-u-california-press-2025

#podcast #InformationSciences #interview #eugenics #author #surveillance_capitalism #third_reich #US #elitism #contaminants_conspiracy #solidarity #power_structures #alienation #patriarchy #Chinese_women #racism #books #tech #exclusion #tech #panopticon #policies #anti_pluralism #harm #toxic_digital_environment #data_extractivism

“𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝.”

― 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘔. 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘸

#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #harm #empathy

Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat

#HackerNews #Snapchat #Children #Harm #IndustrialScale #SocialMedia #Safety

Trump Administration Suggests Redefining 'Harm' in Context of Endangered Species Protections #World #Administration #context #endangered #Harm #Protections #Redefining #species #suggests #Trump 
https://tinyurl.com/24ux9zoa

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok

#HackerNews #TikTok #Harm #Children #IndustrialScale #DigitalSafety

Boy they make those instructions seem tough, here I’ve simplified it by directly linking you to the correct proposed rule comment page.

Comment on the #Trump admin’s #EndangeredSpeciesAct proposed rule change redefining the word “#harm” here:

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001

#Law #Science #EndangeredSpecies #Wildlife #Habitat #Climate

In the 1990s, #timber companies that wanted to harvest those old-growth #forests challenged the govt's broad interpretation of #harm. #SCOTUS ultimately upheld that interpretation in a 6-3 decision.

Justice Antonin Scalia dissented w/that interpretation. He argued that in the context of wild #animals, "take" should be interpreted more literally, as an affirmative act directed against a particular animal, not an act that indirectly causes injury to a population.

#Law #Wildlife #Conservation

#EndangeredSpecies' habitat at risk under #Trump proposal

The Trump admin is proposing to significantly limit the #EndangeredSpeciesAct's power to preserve crucial #habitats by changing the definition of one word: #harm.

#Law #Science #Wildlife #Conservation #Climate
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-species-act-change-harm-trump-rule

The great koala - glider national park - logging an environmentally significant area

"The Minns Labor government promised to create a koala national park before the state election more than two years ago, but has not taken a decision on the boundaries and has allowed logging to continue. Between April and July 2024, the surveys detected greater gliders at 82 sites. The government’s analysis estimated the planned park has between 29,693 and 44,211 gliders, with a mean estimate of 36,483."

“...Logging should cease in all state forest areas identified as containing greater gliders.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues
#BiodiversityCrisis #conservation #harm #destruction #NativeForests #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #ExtinctionCrisis #governance

“Bike riding is largely viewed as a recreational activity – I think that’s the principal philosophy here.”
(in Australia) >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/sudden-closure-of-iconic-bridge-to-cyclists-shows-car-is-still-king-in-brisbane
#MobilityDesign #cars #Australia #mindsets #FossilFuel #climate #Automobility #harm #cyclists #pedestrians #ActiveTransport

Paris Bike Boom Leads to Steep Drop in Air Pollution

"The French city’s air quality has improved dramatically in the past 20 years, coinciding with a growth in cycling...Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — two of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.”

"City leaders including Mayor Anne Hidalgo have been making a concerted effort to pedestrianize parts of the city, improve bike infrastructure, and promote active transportation in the French capital."
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https://www.planetizen.com/news/2025/04/134769-paris-bike-boom-leads-steep-drop-air-pollution
#cars #pollution #harm #air #cycling #pedestrians #BellingenShire #Australia #ActiveTransport #climate

The #cruelty is the point.
Inflicting #harm before the #justice system can act, beyond what the justice system can demand in restitution, is the point.
Defying courts that do not rule in their favor is the point.
Evading accountability is the point.
Wanton and gratuitous destruction is the point.
Operating in bad faith is the point.
Lying is the point.
We win and you lose is the point. (Hint: you’re not part of “we,” and neither am I.)

Experts in govt, consumer rights & #immigration #law said the #Trump admin’s action is illegal. Labeling people dead strips them of the #privacy protections granted to living individuals—& knowingly classifying living people as dead counts as falsifying govt records. This is in addition to the #harm inflicted on those declared dead,who become unable to legally earn a living wage or draw benefits… #SocialSecurity itself has acknowledged that an incorrect death declaration is a “devastating” blow.

"When we talk about the unfair practices and #harm done by training #largelanguagemodels, we usually talk about how they were trained on other people’s creative work without permission. But this is an ongoing problem that’s just getting worse.

If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem.

Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest "#AI” hammers."

https://adactio.com/journal/21831

Seven wedge-tailed eagles have been found shot on a property in southern New South Wales.

"Six of the birds were found dead on the property at Eurongilly, about 60 kilometres from Wagga Wagga, while a seventh was injured but had to be euthanased.Wedge-tailed eagles are a protected species in New South Wales and mainland Australia under the Birds and Animals Protection Act".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/seven-wedge-tailed-eagles-die-after-being-shot-near-wagga-wagga/105150464
#birds #crime #Biodiversity #NSW #farmers #mindsets #livestock #harm #BirdsOfFediverse