"Le monde fait face à une demande croissante en ressources minérales dans tous les secteurs, en particulier ceux de la construction, du transport, de la défense, de l’approvisionnement en énergie ou encore des technologies de l’information et de la communication. [...] Jusqu'où toutes ces limites seront-elles repoussées pour répondre à une consommation de métaux démesurée ?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8RMX8ODWQs
#UrgenceClimatique

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Toots in french and english.
Second generation immigrant. Dad. Runner. 3 cats.
Full stack C# dev & legacy software caretaker.
Not a cryptobro.
Forever Lost.
Seeking mastery in all earthly things.
Trying to change the world with #empathy and #education
EFF member
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Nouveau livre dans ma liste de lecture: www.leslibraires.ca/livres/une-civilisation-de-feu-dalie-giroux-9782897129088.html
"Moi, la liberté que cette société me propose, je la trouve humiliante, on me propose la liberté d’acheter des marchandises. Tout ce dont on a besoin pour vivre est capitalisé et marchandisé, c’est insatisfaisant, c’est dégueulasse et c’est insuffisant. Ça ne m’amuse pas du tout." - Dalie Giroux
#UrgenceClimatique
Gotta manage my monthly urge to switch to a dumb phone / #KaiOs 🙃
A song that comforts me: songwhip.com/the-national/not-in-kansas
"In the 16th century, Western art made a distinct shift from religious imagery and portraits of nobility to scenes of everyday life. So why did artists pivot from venerating powerful people and institutions to images of peasants engaged in unremarkable activities like walking, dancing, working and eating?"
aeon.co/videos/why-european-artists-shifted-their-focus-from-power-to-peasants-in-the-16th-century
#art
"Déplacés de leurs terres ancestrales, les Innus de Pakuashipi ont subi mille et une douleurs. Après avoir vécu des décennies de politiques d'acculturation et les abus d’un prêtre oblat, la communauté est enfin prête à entamer un processus de guérison… 60 ans plus tard."
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/6147/autochtones-innus-deplacement-histoire-quebec
"Economics is a pretty bizarre field [...] The beauty of economics is we can radically overhaul our economic systems and institutions to better serve us, rather than being prey to the outputs of a haggard and worn out system. Such a realisation is, though, beyond the imagination of most economic leaders."
www.planetcritical.com/p/the-eco-fiscal-crisis
#ClimateChange
My pronunciation for *that* one letter platform will now be /fæʃks/ or fasc-x if you prefer that format
"The resulting portrait is an observational look into the group’s unyielding commitment to their cause, which requires a unique melding of survivalism, tree-climbing and activism expertise, and, perhaps above all else, the endurance to outlast the time, money and resources of their opponents."
aeon.co/videos/tree-sit-with-activists-as-they-fight-industrial-logging-from-100-feet-above-the-ground
"How many people know that the Indigenous populations of the Americas declined by 90-98 per cent since 1492?"
aeon.co/essays/we-must-not-forget-what-happened-to-the-worlds-indigenous-children