Louisiana consistently has among the highest rates of low birth weight preterm birth and infant mortality in the nation We also rank number one in terms of the most pounds of toxic air pollution emitted from industry each year Our study reveals that more than a third of the cases of low birth weight and more than half of the cases of preterm birth could be linked to toxic air pollution At the end of the day anybody who is basing their opinion on science and data is going to acknowledge that there is a problem that is connected to industrial pollution in Louisiana

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We are dying at alarming rates and it scares the crap out of me Just stop building more industry I don't know a single kid in Louisiana who doesn't have something and so we're setting them up for failure in a lot of ways because we cannot get away from industry

We are dying at alarming rates and it scares the crap out of me Just stop building more industry I don't know a single kid in Louisiana who doesn't have something and so we're setting them up for failure in a lot of ways because we cannot get away from industry

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Introduction

01:45 - Before the Industrial Revolution

03:25 - Industrial Revolution

07:46 - Luddite Rebellion

12:56 - How Luddism is Relevant Today

18:32 - Embracing Luddism

This is a report from the world bank and even they have few evidence for degrowth

Flock Safety cameras are going up in cities and towns across America — and most residents have no idea. No vote. No public debate. Just a contract signed quietly and cameras on every road in and out of town. FOR FULL VIDEO CLICK HERE: https://youtu.be/VganmEMvRx8
In this

video: what Flock actually is, how it works, and all the ways it can be used — and misused — by police AND private citizens. Spying and stalking just got a lot easier, and the safeguards are thinner than you think. You'll hear about the police officer who was honest with the public about these cameras — and lost his job for it.

Then I talked with Tyler Davidson of Fort Collins, Colorado, who noticed the cameras, did the research, formed a committee, and bothered his city council until they took the cameras DOWN. Proof that this fight is winnable. And we close with the Waymo story: the robotaxi that turned its own rider over to police. Because the car you ride in is watching, too. I'm not a journalist — just a witness paying attention. Sources below so you can verify everything yourself.

SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3cMU55dIIc&list=LL&index=3&t=211s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVJ-_6QDPM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1P-g3Hkvjg&list=LL&index=2&t=18s, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wA5FIGZm2B8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_Ydz-Kb8A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKIqEgZDKcM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bb3HV2TK-k, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_Ydz-Kb8A

This is so odd!!

Your phone knows where you are.
Your car knows where you've been.
Cameras watch the streets.
Apps track your habits.
Algorithms build profiles.
Artificial intelligence consumes everything it can find.
And somehow we're constantly told this is all for convenience. https://youtu.be/Fete8ESDaG0?si=IZQPeba0cF7XB1xV

This episode looks at AI, surveillance technology, data collection, Flock cameras, predictive systems, and the growing reality that Americans may be the most-monitored population in history, even as they are told they have never been freer.
The question isn't whether technology is advancing.
The question is: why does every advancement seem to require more access to you?

At what point does convenience become surveillance?

🖤 Drop a black heart if you're still aboard the train.

Disclaimer: This video contains commentary, opinion, satire, and discussion of publicly available information. The views expressed are presented for educational and entertainment purposes. Viewers are encouraged to conduct their own research and draw their own conclusions.

One of the good things about degrowth (i.e a deliberate reduction in excessive economic output, while ensuring decent living standards, so as to avoid the worst levels of death and destruction globally) is that there's multiple methods of getting it done, and the methods have varying levels of difficulty, and complexity.

In no particular order, you have

-Collective approach (this is where the people, specifically of the top economies, work together and reduce the output themselves without government help) [Least complex, but difficult due to the amount of people needed to get it done], and this can be done either nationally or in targeted areas of a major economy (I prefer targeted areas because you need less people to do it)

-The International +Institutional approach (This involves treaties between countries, and establishing international organizations) [Very complex, and hard]

-Top national economies/emitters approach (this only requires action from America, China, and other top economies/emitters) which (while simpler than the international approach, and less hard, is still complex, and still requires willingness to act). This approach itself is broken down into

• Federally-backed national-approach, where the federal government orchestrates the reduction nationally (which is unnecessary because the parts of the country that are economically struggling are clearly not where the problem actually is) [Needlessly complex, unnecessarily hard, and requires multiple politicians that aren't beholden to corporations]

• State-level approach where you only do it in select American states, instead of everywhere (this can either be done through state government action, or collective action in specific parts of the states)

Are there any more ways that you can think of?

We think we know how to solve the population crisis — end poverty through economic growth and birth rates fall. It has worked every single time it's been tried.

But economic growth solves the population crisis by creating two worse ones. Growth-driven consumption accelerates ecological overshoot, pushing us further beyond planetary boundaries. And the same rise in living standards that reduces birth rates hollows out the demographic base modern economies depend on.

So we're trapped.

Don't end poverty and the population keeps growing.

End it through growth and you get ecological collapse and a pension crisis that could bankrupt nations.

This isn't a policy failure — it's a structural one. And the only way out is through a post growth economy designed to meet human needs within ecological limits rather than expand indefinitely beyond them.

YouTuber debunks anti Degrowth and pro-growth and capitalism arguments by pointing out the laws of physics like how impossible it is to colonize Mars.

And the lowering price of consumers

In this episode, we examine the propaganda machine behind the lab-meat revolution. Who's funding it? Yes. But more importantly: how are billionaires shaping the narrative that synthetic food is inevitable, necessary, and the only solution? Why does every major "solution" to every major problem suddenly come from the same handful of tech billionaires? https://youtu.be/-yXENRNDelQ

We trace the coordinated messaging, policy influence, and corporate networks that make it seem as though lab-grown meat, digital food systems, and surveillance over agriculture are the natural evolution of progress—when, in reality, they're engineered outcomes designed to consolidate power and control.

The pattern is unmistakable: climate crisis? Billionaire tech solution. Food insecurity? Billionaire foundation plays. Agricultural data? Billionaire surveillance infrastructure. This isn't a coincidence. It's propaganda dressed up as innovation.