Just to raise awareness at the situation in Canada right now to my non-Canadian followers: Toronto has been ranked as having the worst air quality in the world right now due to wildfires.
Toronto is not a wildfire-prone area. It is extremely close to the USA border, and the smog is currently affecting NY right now. There is literal chunks of debris in the air. The sky is orange, and the sun is nowhere to be seen.
Climate change and its effects are right outside your door. Data centres are the cause for the insane heat waves across the globe, and the increase in wildfires and other natural disasters.
You will watch recordings of the world burn around you, and only when you are behind the camera will you realize there is no going back.
The following rant is not about OP, I fully agree with them, but this is the first post that has come across my dash about this, and I have A LOT of feelings on it, and I want to use their post as a jumping off point and raise further awareness from the perspective of someone who lives in Northwestern Ontario.
Northwestern Ontario is on fire. There’s videos of entire forests being consumed by flames and smoke. The air quality in Thunder Bay, which is the evacuation hub, is even worse than Toronto. Multiple Indigenous reserves and small towns have been evacuated, some of them burned to the ground.
The amount of suffering the Canadian Federal government and Ontario Provincial Government is willing to allow for the sake of AI and pipelines is revolting. Collins Ontario has been reduced to ash and our prime minister, Mark Carney, has not said a word about it (at least as of the writing of this post). Our premier, Doug Ford, has spent the past few years slashing our wildfire fighting budget and is now lying and saying he didn’t touch it to try to hide the blood on his hands.
Our leaders don’t care about us. They look us in the eye while watching us burn and tell us how great the pipelines and AI data centres they want to build will be for our economy. We cannot have a functioning economy when all the citizens who would participate are fucking dead.
And of course, the people suffering most from this are Indigenous people. People whose land we occupied, who have been working for time immemorial to preserve the land, who we have systematically attempted to erase so we could take that land and plunder its resources, are once again bearing the brunt of the consequences of our colonial governments actions. White people are destroying our country, and its Indigenous people who have to watch their homes burn as they flee.
I don’t really know how to end this rant. As someone who has lived their entire life in Northwestern Ontario, it is both an odd experience and completely predictable that in this conversation about wildfires destroying the communities around mine, the conversation is not about Collins or Whitesand First Nation, or any of the other communities that have been evacuated and/or destroyed, or Thunder Bay and the fact that the air quality is 10x worse than Toronto. It’s about Toronto if they’re talking about Canada, or it’s about how much the smoke is annoying Americans. I have also seen multiple Northwestern Ontario communities band together and support the victims of these fires. Multiple volunteer organizations are no longer accepting donations because the community has brought so much stuff. So I’m choosing to not be disheartened by the fact that the world doesn’t really care that Indigenous people are being displaced because of colonial bullshit yet again, but to find hope in watching my community and my neighbours band together to help as best we can. It’s that sort of community that we need to push back on the AI data centres and the pipelines and all the other shit the Federal and Provincial governments are trying to do.
If you care about the air quality in Toronto or in Philadelphia or anywhere else, I implore you care about Northwestern Ontario too. Look for resources to donate, write to your MPs and pressure them to not let this slide, and remind people that outside of the big cities, Indigenous people have lost their homes, their jobs, the communities they’ve built, because Canada cares more about oil executives than the people whose land we’re on.
I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.
After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented
okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years
im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly
this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing
I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.
I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.
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Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"
New data shows sales declining, and the trend is forcing grocers and brands to compete harder on price and value.
The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore.
Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices. That is according to new analysis from Bain & Company using NielsenIQ grocery data shared exclusively with CNBC.
Grocery units, which refer to individual items or products sold, fell 1.8% in June from a year earlier, a sharp reversal from the 0.1% year-over-year growth recorded in June 2025. While prices continue to rise about 2% to 3% year-over-year, that inflation cushion for the industry is no longer enough to keep overall sales growing.
"That big grocery stock up trip that costs you $300 in 2019, now costing you $400," said Kurt Grichel, head of Bain's Americas retail practice.
"Even that upper-income consumer, you're talking a big enough absolute dollar change that people start to feel a little bit of that sticker shock and start to shop around," said Grichel.
Rather than one economic shock, Bain suggests several pressures have converged on consumers.
Grocery prices are roughly 33% higher than they were in 2019 and fuel costs have spiked. Many lower-income households have also had to cut back spending due to reduced SNAP benefits and tighter program eligibility.
Bain's U.S. Consumer Pulse Wave survey conducted in May found 80% of Americans are still trying to spend less, while 28% are actively cutting back on grocery spending. Among those shoppers, 56% said they are trading down to cheaper brands, 49% said they are buying fewer items and 44% said they are relying more heavily on coupons and promotions.
Those trends are having ripple effects for producers. PepsiCo is one of the food manufacturers feeling the consumer shift.
During its second quarter reported on Thursday, the beverage and snack maker said North American demand weakened. North America food revenue fell 2%, while volume was flat.
"I think the consumer is worse than what we had anticipated, and it's driven mainly by gas prices," said PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta during the company's conference call with investors.
Executives also pointed to lower effective pricing, indicating the company increased promotional activity as consumers became more price sensitive.
Those results align with a broader shift across the grocery industry, where retailers including Walmart and Kroger have emphasized price cuts and value-focused promotions to attract shoppers.
Walmart announced summer price cuts to beef, ice cream and other items including products made by PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and the company's own private label Great Value.
"The grocers have been pushing back on the suppliers to reduce prices where possible, and the suppliers recognize the need to do so," said Telsey Advisory Group analyst Joe Feldman.
"The entire industry is trying to get back to unit growth, not just dollar growth."
Bain said that strategy may become increasingly important.
"The edge goes to grocers that are priced sharply on the products that customers notice," said Grichel. "Most things like ground beef, chicken, milk, eggs, and they're using a combination of promotions, loyalty programs, personalization, private label to stitch together an overall value proposition that customers can understand and trust."
Old and powerful people continue to destroy the world that we still have to live in.
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction. But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, Americans could still kill, trap and harass them.
That action — paired with another issued Friday that requires regulators to consider the economic toll of habitat protection — is part of President Donald Trump’s broad attempt to reinterpret the 1973 Endangered Species Act in ways that weaken protections for imperiled plants and animals.
In March, the administration convened the so-called God squad in a 15-minute session that decided oil and gas companies no longer need to abide by Endangered Species Act protections in the Gulf of Mexico. Last week, the administration repealed a decades-old rule so that habitat destruction will no longer be considered a “harm” to endangered species. …”
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