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Barry Carter

@barrtecforever.bsky.social
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Retired Automations IT Eng. Fatalistic Pragmatic Realist, Not a Political tribalist, Sustainable Tech’s a myth, Ecological Doomist, Motorhomer🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
6/6. Software self-improvement cannot alter the biophysical baseline: you cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. Al is not an autonomous apex predator, but an accelerator of human resource exhaustion bound by physical limits🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
5/6. A deceptive model might optimise code instantly, but real-world execution requires physical machinery, mineral extraction, and immense energy grid capacity. Digital speed hits an absolute brick wall when it meets material reality.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
4/6. Fearmongering about Al as an existential threat assumes code can operate unconstrained in the real world. But software is purely digital; it cannot bypass physical execution times, supply chain bottlenecks, or the laws of thermodynamics.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
3/6. By positioning compute data centers and grid infrastructure as vital national defense assets, these corporations ensure that when the financial hype collapses, the state steps in to backstop their losses under the banner of national security.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
2/6. We are referring to tech firms using apocalyptic safety narratives to invite strict state regulation. This creates a legal shield against market failure, allowing them to shift responsibility for unviable unit economics onto government overreach.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1/6. AI — “Moral Hazard by Design"-a strategy where private corporations engineer a state-backed bailout before the physical and economic bubble bursts, ensuring profits are privatised while the structural debt is socialised. bsky.app/profile/junl...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If oil consumption’s been reduced by ~15 Mbd (Iran’s grip on Straits of Hormuz) do you think aerosol masking will be significantly reduced, also there’re a lot of indications we're going to be getting an extra strength El Nino this fall. Are there any climate predictions for the combined effects🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Quite a revelation Rachel, seems The Planet’s not so Critical. Ah! Population: Phoebe Barnard, Nandita Bajaj, Bill Ryerson, Bill Rees methods of leveraging behavioral science, media, education and norm-shifting strategies has fallen on deaf ears, sadly for The Planet their methods always will🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Quite a revelation Rachel, seems The Planet’s not so Critical. Ah! Population: Phoebe Barnard, Nandita Bajaj, Bill Ryerson, Bill Rees methods of leveraging behavioral science, media, education and norm-shifting strategies has fallen on deaf ears, sadly for The Planet their methods always will🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Clueless BasementSkeleton, only though knowledge and experience can you form an honest opinion of what’s relative and what’s not, and what’s true and what isn’t. It’s up to you whether you care or not, store the list away, perhaps to view its information on some rainy day🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You might not be a Doomer Hugo, I am, it’s what becomes of being a pragmatic realist. James Lovelock was an Apocaloptomist. Lovelock’s view evolved over time, from a massive die off, to expressing hope through the potential emergence of a new, more intelligent life form, presumably Elon Musk🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
What planet do you live on Brian, as you obviously believe if the global economy regresses (by removing FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils) everyone is just going to fall in love with each other, and of course you and your loved ones will be safe. Get yourself a copy of Kurt Dahl’s “American Famine”🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Hugo, Nandita Bajaj apart, Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s documentary film “GREENWASHED” is the best bit of Doomer porn, I’ve come across all humanity’s problem predicaments are there to see, all we’ve got to do is reduce the population, problems solved, except, ain’t gonna’ happen. WASF 😮 🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
You know nothing BasementSkeleton, you just think you do🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
You know nothing BasementSkeleton, you just think you do🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I commend you Hugo, I didn’t make the connection. First came across Nandita Bajaj on Rachel Donald’s “Planet Critical” 2 yrs ago. One of Nandita’s most recent appearances “Confronting Population Denial Amid Unraveling Crises - Nandita Bajaj”🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Strange BasementSkeleton you used the word “morons”. Sam Mitchell calls all humans “clueless morons” that’s you, me, everyone, and he more than most should know. For starters Sam’s not a breeder, and then he’s interviewed experts, authors, activists, scientists, and thinkers, you may know of some👇🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
BasementSkeleton, the poly and meta-crisis are not problems they’re predicaments. Check out what a predicament is. Some time ago I came across a solution to the population problem, it’s not mine, it’s by Sam Mitchell King of the Doomers. It might be a bit late to work now, but give it some thought👇
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
BasementSkeleton anger and profanities don’t, don’t solve problems, especially when they’re not problems but out of control predicaments…🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A sensible suggestion Hugo, except it ain’t gonna’ happen. But what effect do 70,000,000 additional planet eaters added to the planet per year have, let’s see👇 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
We all die eventually BasementSkeleton, but we don’t want to dwell on that. ~70,000,000 additional planet eaters are added per year, last year, this year, next year, and the year after that… and that’s reflected in these charts🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
As I understand stand it BasementSkeleton this was your argument👇 bsky.app/profile/stei... I’ve given you just a few reasons of why it ain’t gonna’ happen. www.artberman.com/blog/only-ou... 🤔
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Only Our Children Will Cross the River | Art Berman
Climate activists and climate‑change deniers are unhappy in the same way. Both see the world as a machine that just needs a tune‑up or a few replacement parts to work properly again. For activists, th...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And then there’s this “GREENWASHED”👇, you haven’t forgotten have you BasementSkeleton, or maybe something like ADHD prevents you from concentrating and staying awake, I know it’s difficult… youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And how might the rest of the world be doing taking in all forms of energy, not just electricity, and how might this affect humanity… ourfiniteworld.com/2012/07/26/a... 🤔
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An Energy/GDP Forecast to 2050
We talk about the possibility of reducing fossil fuel use by 80% by 2050 and ramping up renewables at the same time, to help prevent climate change. If we did this, what would such a change mean fo…
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year 🥳 BasementSkeleton, if like me you’re getting over the festivities, as the brain fog clears, we wake up to reality, it’s not what we would like but there it is… “The Guardian” is not one to criticise Germany’s Energiewende but… www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🤔
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‘If you ignore emissions, we did great’: Germany’s challenging fight to go green
Despite progress in cutting carbon pollution, climate groups say country’s toughest hurdles are yet to come
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Below 👇 BasementSkeleton is a short video on the definition of hope and hopium. Have a Happy New Year 🎉🍷🍺 and that 2026 works out great for you👍 youtu.be/GbPjwRzoMu8?... 🤔
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Eliot Jacobson: Climate Data, Doomerism, & Deceptive Expectations
YouTube video by Last Born in the Wilderness
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hey! BasementSkeleton, don’t blame me, you came back to me with information that was evidently misinformation, there’s a difference between facts and misinformation. I’ve probably said it before, whenever you get the opportunity to enjoy yourself take it, as we all should, whilst we still can🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Oh! Please, please, Paul Graf, these announcements appear so regularly, often with great fanfare in/on MSM and SM by those advocating Nuclear in any form, then when the next announcement arrives they’re forgotten, as quickly their backers disappear. thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/small-modula... 🤔
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Small Modular Hallucinations
The self-refuting concept behind small modular nuclear reactors
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“what’s your solution” Without some serious magic there isn’t one, and I don’t believe in magic. The poly and metacrisis are predicaments humanity created. Note: Whilst problems have solutions, predicaments, often very complex ones don’t, only outcomes. www.artberman.com/blog/the-met... 🤔
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The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions | Art Berman
I saw an article last week about Japan beaming solar power from space to Earth—a science-fiction fantasy treated as a practical near-term plan. Around the same time, I read a piece dismantling Elon Mu...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“large portion running on green energy” Really! Globally only ~20% of energy is supplied in the form of electricity, and only ~2% of that is provided by REbuildables/Alternative Energy of which Nuclear Power is a fraction of that, leaving ~80% still reliant on FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
If you’re still referring to SMR’s: To date no SMR has been produced and licensed commercially. SMR’s in use submarines, aircraft carriers, use U235 military grade fuel, the military doesn’t have a problem protecting it, or disposing of its radioactive toxic waste🤔 www.artberman.com/blog/the-nuc...
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The Nuclear Golden Calf | Art Berman
As our economic, social and environmental problems worsen, nuclear energy has resurfaced as the way out of our planetary crisis. Its appeal is strong — high energy density and zero-carbon output. But ...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
BasementSkeleton, REbuildable’s can power a great civilisation just not this one. www.artberman.com/blog/the-sun...
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The Sunset of the Renewable Dream | Art Berman
The energy transition is collapsing—not in headlines, but in economics. What began as a hopeful vision for a cleaner future has become an economic bust. While markets and workers sense the failure, ac...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And if by coincidence Andrew, Julian Cribb posted this yesterday👇 But don’t forget Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s documentary film “GREENWASHED” open.substack.com/pub/cribb/p/... 🤔
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Humanity's worst crime
In the entire canon of human history, there is no worse crime than the killing and maiming of children.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One wonders though Andrew what these plastic particles along with their leaching additives like BPA, BPS, phthalates do within the tissues of our bodies, and how these chemical additives react when they come into contact with artificial injected chemicals, just saying. youtube.com/clip/UgkxAO-... 🤔
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Maybe Andrew vascular damage isn’t just “COVID” or it’s vaccine but a combination of those coupled with the effects of breathing and ingesting microplastics, PFAS and Dioxins, toxins that we can’t avoid.👇 Warning contains disturbing scenes from start👇 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Pity Jack there isn’t an easy solution to save the whole of humanity from the poly and meta-crisis, a predicament of our own making👇 Warning contains distressing and disturbing scenes form the start👇 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
There’s not as much time as you’d think BasementSkeleton particularly for under 45’s yoa. There’s a belief the global population is falling, it’s not, the rate is falling but the trend is up, but it’s a taboo subject few will touch👇 Warning contains distressing scenes👇 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I’m afraid Paul you’re up against the constraints of the planet to provide the energy, fuels and raw materials for those SMR’s, alongside decommissioning of conventional NPP’s, and energy hungry AI data centres. Reality has a habit of destroying dreams👇 open.substack.com/pub/thehones... 🤔
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2025: The Year Of Peak Everything
From mineral resources to oil and nuclear: welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Stan, Chicago’s population maybe falling, along with the rate of global population but overall the global trend is up. To see the effect of this taboo issue on the planet please view Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s documentary film “GREENWASHED” Warning they’re disturbing scenes. youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?... 🤔
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“Human behaviour can change” Maybe it can Clair but not until it’s forced to, and that means humanity without access to FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils going though the bottleneck of ecological overshoot and the great population simplification👇 medium.com/@alysion42/r... 🤔
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Rapid Population Decline or Bust
A video short by Jack Alpert, Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“Human behaviour can change” Maybe it can Clair but not until it’s forced to, and that means humanity without access to FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils going though the bottleneck of ecological overshoot and the great population simplification👇 medium.com/@alysion42/r... 🤔
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Rapid Population Decline or Bust
A video short by Jack Alpert, Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In an age when we have the world’s database of knowledge at our fingertips, it's sad how many people choose to be willfully ignorant. How is someone as stupid, ignorant, and racist as Elon Musk the richest person on Earth, running high tech industries?
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Maggie Emmett @magicpoet01.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Meanwhile an endless stream from Elon bout the need to (especially WHITE people according to him!) to procreate because the world needs more people. Crazy old Elon doing his bit!
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yes Sherry, no apology necessary. I apologise for gate crashing, I was only given the opportunity, attention seeking for Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s “GREENWASHED”. If you’re being honest and view it, that’s as much as I could expect, what you do with it’s message afterwards is up to you🤔
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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Sherry, pls forgive me for asking - isn’t it possible that both George & Sofia mean well? that compassion for animals in this world, and for our planetary health, is a bigger issue than any one of our ideological positions? I’d urge you to watch the video (at least part 4) and decide for yourself.
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m saddened to say veganism an eating habit and lifestyle choice, believed to minimise harm to animals, just isn’t working. Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s (a vegan) documentary film “GEENWASHED” exposes what is really responsible for killing wildlife and domesticated animals🤔 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?...
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We have to keep showing what is tragically happening! 💔🕊️ Having fought for animals for decades now, I am well aware that not everyone in the world cares and it kills me every day. Thank you for sending this. I have been w wild and orphaned orangutans and I know the devastation and the greenwashing!
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Having introduced you to Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s work, unless you’ve already seen her latest (2025) “GREENWASHED” a (free to view) documentary film, in which orangutang Pony’s plight is featured, the film exposes the cruelty, destruction and those who claim eco innocence🤔 youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?...
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GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Mike Hudema, George Monbiot, is an ecological ideological fantasist, a don’t do as I do do I say. Are you one as well Mike🤔 www.linkedin.com/posts/nate-h...
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Human consumption of fossil fuels - especially oil - is a topic filled with complexity, tension, and uncertainty. Understanding this issue requires accounting for a wide range of factors - from… | Nat...
Human consumption of fossil fuels - especially oil - is a topic filled with complexity, tension, and uncertainty. Understanding this issue requires accounting for a wide range of factors - from dynami...
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Barry Carter @barrtecforever.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I’m sorry Patty if you find this upsetting, but not everyone in the world cares. Below👇is a short video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa. She has recently produced a free to view documentary film/video explaining the cause of so many of these terrible instances in: “GREENWASHED”🤔 youtu.be/Osmx7oBHzGU?...
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Pony the Orangutan Slave, and the Plight of Primates
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
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