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Pacific Northwest
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Past, Present, and Future Dead

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By Max Wilbert
| CounterPunch Verified
“…sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, decaying, lifeless, and purely mechanical, is increasing throughout our cybernetic industrial society… [this] threatens to become the secret principle of a society in which the conquest of nature by the machine constitutes the very meaning of progress, and where the living person becomes an appendix to the machine.” — Erich Fromm, Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) The...
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Past, Present, and Future Dead

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By Max Wilbert
| ZNetwork
“…sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, decaying, lifeless, and purely mechanical, is increasing throughout our cybernetic industrial society… [this] threatens to become the secret principle of a society in which the conquest of nature by the machine constitutes the very meaning of progress, and where the living person becomes an appendix to the machine.”— Erich Fromm, Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) It’s...
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Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a New Mineral Rush Spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and Other Major Powers

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By Layne Hartsell, Max Wilbert, Ntafakabirhi-Aganze Clovis
| ZNetwork
Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic growth based on the ‘renewable’ energy provided by lithium-ion batteries. Such batteries are necessary for storing energy from solar photovoltaics in order to make that electricity readily available. A lightweight metal, lithium is generally processed into a white powder after being extracted from brines or salty water ponds and from underground deposits.
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