The precarious service sweatshop platforms are platforms for racial discrimination.

This results from making users give their names, then allowing lots of people (most of them racist, at least unconsciously) to accept or reject each user.

Please don't use the word "sharing" to describe what these platforms do. What they do is a kind of business, and "sharing" means cooperation that isn't a sale.

"Gig economy" is not incorrect, but "precarious service sweatshop" explicitly states their principal wrong.

California's rainy season is the wettest ever recorded, and while in some ways that will help make up for the drought, it was the occasion for the Oroville dam to start to break.

Paradoxically, global heating makes for bigger rains and for deeper droughts — just not at the same time and place.

Cryin'air shows its non-respect for people that need wheelchairs by saying, "Please walk up this stairway, or we will leave you behind."

When some US states legalized same-sex marriage, the suicide rate for high school students dropped 14% in those states.

Global heating is reducing the level of oxygen in the ocean, and some kinds of fish already have trouble getting enough.

There are local "dead zones" with very little oxygen, but this is a different issue. This is a decrease in the amount of oxygen in surface waters where no local phenomenon operates to reduce it.