- The Guardian continues to evolve its response to the climate emergency, and this week published a climate change dashboard.
- At their annual conference, Britain’s Liberal Democrat party voted to back a Universal Basic Income. The Lib Dems are not the force they were, but it marks another step towards the mainstream for Basic Income. (The Green Party also supports BI)
- Governments resist them, campaigners often demand them without necessarily thinking it through, so it’s useful to The Economist’s perspective on how ‘outright bans can sometimes be a good way to fight climate change‘.
- As an experiment, I’m dropping the latest posts from this week in at the bottom, for those catching up. Let me know if this is a helpful feature or not, and I might add it every week.
What we learned this week
Quilicura is a community in Chile that is facing water scarcity, in large part because so many water-cooled AI data centres are located there. To raise awareness of the problem, they brought together a group of local experts to answer people’s AI queries for a day. It’s an imaginative campaign and a good reminder that…
What are the best climate podcasts?
A few years ago there were very few podcasts on climate change. Then all of a sudden there were dozens, and I wrote a list of climate podcasts that I listened to at least occasionally. Fast forward four years and the podcast landscape has shifted significantly, with seven out of the ten podcasts I recommended…
Book review: Attensity, by The Friends of Attention
The great promise of social media was to make it easier than ever to make connections. It initially looked like it would help us make friends and build communities. And yet somehow social media has left us fragmented and isolated, more divided than ever. “How have we been separated from each other and the world…
The Earthbound Report 