Gerry McGovern co‑founded Nua, which in 1996 received the European Union’s Best Overall World Wide Web Business Achievement Award. His book, World Wide Waste (2020), explores how digital technologies are destroying the environment and what we can do about it. His latest book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, was published in 2026. You can follow him on Mastodon here.
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The rush for critical minerals is repeating an ongoing history Indigenous communities know well
All land was Indigenous once. Now, over half of the world’s ‘green’ metal projects are on Indigenous territories, from lithium-driven ecosystem collapse in the Andes to more than 100 proposed lithium mines across the US.
July 28, 2026
Trapped inside a computer
We must accept that some things can only be experienced and accepted. That they cannot be measured in a ‘hard’ way, and that our attempt to do so will kill the very thing we are trying to save.
July 3, 2025
