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Whenever making a new purchase, try to picture where the item will end up after you discard it. Can it be composted, reused, or responsibly recycled? Or would it probably end up in a landfill or body of water? Visualizing the full lifecycle of an item can help sway your decisions to be as sustainable as possible.
Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Richa Syal
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We follow a God who did not stay in the cloud of heaven. He took on flesh, and walked among us, and let us nail Him to a tree.
We follow a God who did not send an algorithm. He sent His Son.
We follow a God who did not optimise. He loved.
We follow a God who did not solve the problem of human suffering by abolishing suffering, but by entering it.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
A cynic could easily argue that the core purpose of the humanities has become to provide the illusion of progressivism to deeply unprogressive institutions, helping them appeal to wealthy liberal students. Colleges usher in social-justice-warrior faculty through the front door while exploiting workers, piling up student debt, and wooing mega-rich donors in the back. Humanities professors often think we’re critics of academic capitalism and rarely pause to wonder if we’re its unwitting stooges.
The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic
Tyler Austin Harper
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