Tag Archives: sustainability

I’m forever blowing bubbles….

Posted on October 21, 2025 by borderslynn

Datacenters, as I have pointed out in my earlier blogs, demand too much energy and water for this planet to sustain. Now the International Monetary Fund has been monitoring the global impact for sometime, purely on an economic basis: Monetary … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, climate change. economic nonsense, dot com bubble, investment hysteria, power to destroy, stocks and shares., sustainability, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Concept of borders

Posted on November 10, 2022 by borderslynn

Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Concept of borders, conflict, Farming, food production, human behaviour, land use, migration, nomadic life, self identity, sustainability, territory | Leave a comment

Fast Fashion Fuelling Extinction

Posted on January 9, 2022 by borderslynn

A few years back I wrote about climate and how the lives of the Inuit had to change as a result. They have been major users of animal skins since they first arrived after generations of travel from Africa, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged animal exploitation, animal extinction, caged animals, environment, exotic animals, factory farming, Fast fashion, fur trade, harm, landfill, overconsumption, pollution, sustainability, toxins, vegan | Leave a comment

Egyptian Cotton, Linen and Bleach

Posted on November 24, 2021 by borderslynn

5000 years ago the Egyptians mastered the art of bleaching. White fabric was a premium choice and one might say they had a compulsive obsession to wash for personal hygiene and wear clean clothes, and that is no bad thing. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient Egypt, bleach, climate, corporates, Cotton, egypt, Flax, history of bleach, Linen, national industry, Nile, Pharoahs, sustainability, textiles, water shortages | Leave a comment

The Battle Against Nature for Cotton

Posted on November 8, 2021 by borderslynn

Using modern techniques, it has been possible to identify the earliest cotton in a copper bead within a grave in Mehrgarh. It is thought the first cotton was grown and utilised by early farmers in this region of what is … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient civilisations, arial sea, big money, boll weevil, climate change, cotton crop, genetics, indus valley, Mehrgarh, molecular biology, neolithic era, Pakistan, parasitic wasp, pesticides, pests, phorid fly, profit before people, red ant, sustainability, toxic poisoning, water shortages | Leave a comment