2019-05-11. Record on Planet Earth: It was 28 Celsius near the Arctic Ocean (northwest Russia) as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history (415 parts per million). #climatecrisis #arctic #russia #humanhistory

Ecological collapse and species loss threaten #humanity as much as climate change. Conservationists say #humans are not listening. #climatecrisis #globalheating https://bit.ly/2WlgM1T

Young sperm #whale found dead in #Sicily with stomach full of #plastic. > https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/20/europe/sperm-whale-sicily-plastic-stomach-intl-scli/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2fZpIplf8Norniy2-TIH_RE9inIX6iWXuVYoxLw2pVa2ZeYse6XamiqJY

Of the roughly 300 million tons of #plastic waste the world creates every year, an estimated 8 million tons makes its way into #oceans. Because the material often breaks down into tiny particles, the oceans contain an estimated 5.25 trillion #microplastics. https://bit.ly/2WX4sSA

"Slavery is defined neither by obedience nor by hardness of labor but by the status of being a mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing." François #Perroux - La Coexistence pacifique (1958) #slavery #humanity #freedom

"And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls."

"Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify #freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear - that is, if they sustain alienation." - Herbert #Marcuse : One-Dimensional Man

"The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves."

"Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but *what* can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual."

Man in his arrogance thinks in himself a great work worthy of the interposition of a deity, more humble and I believe truer to consider him created from animals. - Charles Darwin
img: H. Bosch - detail of Garden of Earthly Delights

The most effective and enduring form of warfare against liberation is the implanting of material and intellectual needs that perpetuate obsolete forms of the struggle for existence. - Marcuse #marcuse #OneDimensionalMan #freedom #needsofhumans

Nervos recently released a token-economic design paper and Michael K. Spencer wrote this neat summary about it on #Medium. #tokeneconomy #nervos > https://medium.com/blockchain-positive/future-of-crypto-economics-token-design-bb181aa21c6

In the sharing economy, ownership gives way to access, sellers and buyers are replaced by providers and users, social capital becomes as important as market capital, consumerism is upended by sustainability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA

"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know."

"People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do."
Eric Hughes
(pic: Bologna, whisper walls)