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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With a predicted "Godzilla" El Niño on the way, is it too much to hope that COP 31 at Antalya in Turkey next month will finally agree to phase out fossil fuels? Probably but let’s draw inspiration from the Paris 2015 COP, which did make a breakthrough in climate policy. youtu.be/WgW-luGoglU?...

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The road to Paris (feat. Ali Hamilton)

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q. What do get when an authoritarian petrostate with one of the world's worst human rights records is given ownership of a Premiership football club? A. Mancheater City

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A frightening picture of the future of the AI-dominated workplace. Here constant surveillance leads to "horrendous stress" and "cognitive surrender" for trainers working in public services. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a 100% chance that AGI will cause human extinction! This statement is as rational and evidence-based as Anthropic's latest "10% chance” warning. A genuinely superintelligent entity defies ALL human predictions. That's why the only rational move is to ban it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...

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Ban AGI

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New Israeli ecocide claims Conservationist Hisham Younes "called the Israeli attacks an “ecocide”, saying they were part of the military’s pattern of assaults on south Lebanon’s environment to degrade its ecosystem with munitions, fire and chemicals." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great to hear that Andy Burnham has made ending rough sleeping his first pledge as PM. It's about time! Since this song was written in 2018, things have got considerably worse, especially in London where rough sleeping has increased by three quarters. youtu.be/Oq141sIxMtI?...

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Rough sleeper

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Is there anything about being human that we're not prepared to let Big Tech automate away? "The OECD found that three quarters of jobs in London were “highly exposed” to AI, meaning that more than half of their daily tasks can be performed by a bot." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Keir Starmer's final legacy: a scandalously secretive pharma deal with Trump that experts estimate will cost the NHS £44 billion by 2030 and lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, double the Covid death toll. Isn't it time the public had a say on this? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty

The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As temperature records are shattered across Europe, a reminder of how badly climate action has faltered over the past decade - and what to do about it! youtube.com/source/hspgt...

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Climate Betrayal (From Paris to Belém)

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I wrote this song almost ten years ago when when the Greens had virtually no political representation in London. Now with two mayors and over 270 newly elected councillors, the dream is finally coming true. Still a long road ahead but hats off to all in the movement of hope! youtu.be/tTbp0yZbaP0?...

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London in green (feat. Craig Souter)

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

With the potentially momentous first Conference on Transition away from Fossil Fuels beginning today in Santa Marta, Colombia, here's a stark reminder in song of what the climate emergency can feel like. youtu.be/m7u10416Ng4?...

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The Emergency

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This 2014 song envisages a climate-ravaged late twenty-first century. But today with illegal wars in Ukraine and the Middle East being led by wanted war criminals and the US run like a mobster operation, tragically, it looks like Gangster Planet has arrived early. youtu.be/-fsuNmf8njw?...

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Gangster Planet (feat. Craig Souter) (2026 remix)

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"The book’s release date was November 2024, and over a year later it’s finally becoming widely acknowledged as a primary source in explaining humanity’s current predicament." My thanks to Professor Clifton Ware for his recent review of The Age of Humachines. clifware.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

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The Age of Humachines: Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity’s Future

An up-to-date perspective of modernity’s technological past, present, and unknown future

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing except to emphasise how badly we need to speed up the transition to renewable energy and escape a global economy dominated by fossil fuel-based gangster capitalism.

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The protest song is back! Rousing anti-ICE songs from Springsteen, Billy Bragg and others underline the enduring power of rebel music. This song from my new music channel is both a protest against runaway climate change and our lack of democratic control over Big Tech. youtu.be/qilT_mJ3Kr8?...

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Who's driving this train?

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fancy a soothing song on ecological economics and degrowth? Well, here it is - and on the same day that the UN rejects GDP! Infinite growth on our finite Earth The madness just goes on and on Bigger and bigger till the whole thing bursts Growing, growing, gone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKX...

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Growing, growing, gone!

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Anyone doubting the connection between AI-mania (and human-technology fusion in general) and imminent climate catastrophe should read this report, predicting a tripling of US gas capacity to serve Big Tech's energy-ravenous data centres. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planet

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

"If warming reaches 2C this century mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming ..." (Pearce and Parncutt, 2023). Here's a song about climate mortality and power inequality for COP30 and beyond. youtu.be/Blm1oSsoqYA?...

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Killing future people

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Non-fiction books don’t usually spawn songs. But following my own ballad, “Standing up for being human”, songwriter/producer John Hamilton has penned this infectiously catchy, quirky pop song, inspired by The Age of Humachines. Well worth a listen, Elvis connection and all! youtu.be/gIO4szr9crU

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HuMachine (featuring Ali Hamilton)

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

How can we counter rampaging Big Tech capitalism and the undemocratic politics and psychology driving it and move towards a genuinely liberating, ”eco-equal” future? This brilliant podcast tries to find the answers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkD...

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Humachines, Big Tech, & Our Future | Michael D.B. Harvey

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A decade of climate betrayal? Ahead of November's crucial COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, here are some personal reflections in song of the ten years since the Paris accord and the album of climate songs I released at that time. youtu.be/hspgtTIBomE?...

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From Paris to Belém

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Check out my interview with Michael Bayliss on the Post-Growth Australia Podcast. We discuss Big Tech's humachination agenda, the dangers of unregulated AI & robotics, the perils of Smartheid surveillance and the incomparably better future degrowth society can offer. pgap.fireside.fm/humachines

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Techno Dystopia and the Age of Humachines with Michael D.B. Harvey

In this episode of PGAP, we’re joined by Michael D.B. Harvey, author of The Age of Humachines: Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity’s Future. Harvey offers a sobering perspective on the trajectory of ...

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A new A/cene song! We’re living in the Anthropocene, On a beautiful planet in crisis. Everywhere you go you see extremes, Everywhere you go you hear the screams, Red lights flashing on every screen But we can do better than this. We’ve got to be better than this. youtu.be/eFHZnOZp1eA?...

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Living in the Anthropocene

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

For crucial insights into the psychology of AI, humachination and the mass job automation and roboticization planned by Big Tech please check out my conversation with Professor Mick Cooper. We urgently need to wake up to the threat of ontocapitalism before it's too late! youtu.be/ikvUyT1KF84

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The Age of Humachines: Artificial Intelligence, Social Justice, and the Annihilation of Being Human.

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Make something with a sharper mind than you And expect to end up living in a zoo. And why would we need a digital God? Democracy can do that job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...

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Ban AGI

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Matthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I really recommend reading The Age of Humachines by @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm delighted that the North American edition of The Age of Humachines is now out and that the book has just received a much-sought-after Kirkus starred review! 😀https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-db-harvey/the-age-of-humachines-big-tech-and-the-battle-for-humanitys-future/

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THE AGE OF HUMACHINES | Kirkus Reviews

A complex, multipart agenda for a future in which humans retain their humanity.

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As we face a Trumped-up AI revolution, increasing climate inaction, wars, exploitation and countless other inequality-multipliers, isn't it time that we asked ourselves what do we really want as a species? That, I guess, is what I was trying to get at in this song. youtu.be/WHVlHt5q-Uo?...

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What do we really want?

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

The AI Resistance movement will continue to gather strength once Trump unleashes a Big Tech deregulatory frenzy, empowering Musk and other ontocapitalists to automate everything and everyone. For more, check out my podcast interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdEd...

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Human Augmentation Incoming | The Coming Age Of Humachines | Episode #53

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Crelis Rammelt @crelis.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Green growth proponents continue to produce flawed graphs that claim to show the decoupling of emissions from economic growth. These graphs are repeatedly critiqued, but the critiques are ignored, leading to a cycle of misleading representations.

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A homework assignment for “green growthers”

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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

My book on the technological revolution now affecting every aspect of being human on planet Earth is now out! Reviewers have called it "informative, provocative and inspiring" and "an amazing tour-de-force across science, technology, psychology, political economy and ecology". ft.co/dSO3jySubY

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The Age of Humachines: Ontocapitalism, Big Tech Dystopia and the Eco-Democratic, Degrowth Alternative: Amazon.co.uk: Harvey, Michael Denis Bagenal: 9781068642302: Books

Buy The Age of Humachines: Ontocapitalism, Big Tech Dystopia and the Eco-Democratic, Degrowth Alternative by Harvey, Michael Denis Bagenal (ISBN: 9781068642302) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low ...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

I really believe that "ecomodernist" is a misnomer. This school of thought is not distinguished by their embrace of technology (degrowth research also embraces technology). It is distinguished by their insistence on perpetual growth, ever-increasing aggregate output. That's it.

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