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Interconnected Earth

We are a publication dedicated to exploring how life on Earth is deeply interconnected. From mental health and global events to art, philosophy, culture, and beyond, we examine how seemingly separate issues influence one another and shape the world we all share. Our goal is to uncover the threads that connect personal experience with global systems, helping readers better understand the complex, intertwined nature of our planet.

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Moral Fatigue in the Age of Advanced Information: Understanding, Surviving, and Responding

InterconnectedEarth1 month ago1 month ago010 mins

Since 2020, the world has experienced an unprecedented cascade of historic events—pandemic, political upheavals, wars, climate disasters, social movements, economic shifts, and rapid technological transformation. These collective experiences have not only shaped global history, they have also exerted extraordinary psychological and emotional pressure on individuals around the world. As news cycles compress and digital platforms flood us with information, many people find themselves exhausted not just physically, but morally and emotionally. This state—commonly described as moral fatigue or compassion fatigue—is increasingly recognized as a widespread response to continuous exposure to global crises.

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AI in Animation: Faster Pipelines, Fewer Jobs, and a Creative Industry Under Pressure

InterconnectedEarth1 month ago1 month ago08 mins

This article examines how AI is actually being used in animation today, where it is likely heading, and why the growing reliance on AI in animation may pose serious long-term risks to animators, studios, and the creative integrity of the medium itself.

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Why the Video Game Industry Feels Like It’s in Decline

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago09 mins

For years, the video game industry was treated as one of the few “unstoppable” sectors of the global economy. Even when other industries slowed, gaming continued to grow. More players, more revenue, more studios, more investment. By the early 2020s, video games were bigger than film and music combined. So why does the industry now…

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Who Really Shapes Policy? The Top Lobbying Spenders of 2025 and the Power Behind Them

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago09 mins

Lobbying is often discussed as a background feature of American politics—something abstract, technical, or inevitable. But in practice, lobbying is one of the clearest ways to see whose interests have the most consistent access to lawmakers, regulators, and the policy-writing process itself. Money does not guarantee outcomes, but it determines proximity: who gets meetings, who…

The November Jobs Report Is Bad — and It Still Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago08 mins

Even with October’s missing jobs report, November’s numbers are strange — and they still don’t show the full picture, the November jobs report is bad. Yes, the data is weak. Yes, the outlook is deteriorating. But thanks to the government shutdown, delayed data collection, structural labor shifts, and long-building demographic pressures, this report captures only part of what is actually happening in the economy.

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AI’s Hidden Cost: How Artificial Intelligence Is Fueling Climate Change and Rising Energy Bills

InterconnectedEarth3 months ago2 months ago05 mins

Artificial intelligence has become the new engine of the global economy — transforming how we work, communicate, and innovate. But as the race to build smarter, faster, more capable AI systems accelerates, a pressing question emerges: how much energy does it take to power intelligence itself? And as the world builds new data centers at record speed, who will ultimately pay the price?

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Is the AI Bubble Finally Starting to Burst?

InterconnectedEarth3 months ago2 months ago05 mins

For much of the past two years, artificial intelligence has been the single biggest driver of excitement—and valuation—in the global stock market. From Nvidia’s meteoric rise to the explosion of AI startups backed by venture capital, the narrative of unstoppable AI growth has captivated investors and the public alike. But as recent market signals show,…