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Billie Eilish Receives Environmental Award Despite Family Owning Multiple Properties, Including Horse Ranch, and Malibu Beach House

Billie Eilish was honored alongside her mother, Maggie Baird, over the weekend at the 2022 Environmental Media Association Awards Gala in Los Angeles for their work with the family’s environmental non-profit organization. But noticeably missing from the accolades is the fact that the mega-pop star’s carbon footprint is far bigger than most thanks to her and her family’s multiple properties, which include a horse ranch in Glendale and a Malibu beach house.

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Welcome to the Woke Future: AI Expert Predicts People Will Raise ‘Virtual Children’ in the Metaverse

In a new book, AI expert Catriona Campbell suggests that it won’t be long before people begin to raise virtual children in the Metaverse as the cost of child-rearing rises. What seems like a nightmare scenario to some is a positive to the author, who says that virtual children “could help us solve some of today’s most pressing issues, including overpopulation.”

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Trolls Leonardo DiCaprio for Sharing Environmental Fake News

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro traded barbs with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday after DiCaprio urged young Brazilians to vote for a “healthy planet,” implicitly suggesting they vote against the incumbent president in the October general election. Bolsonaro retaliated by dismissing DiCaprio as a tool of “crooks who serve foreign special interests.”

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