Bill McKibben: the troll has reduced our slim chances of avoiding global heating disaster, but they are not zero. We must not give up.

In addition, our efforts now might reduce somewhat the scope of the disaster even if it is too late to avoid it. Maybe half a billion humans could survive this century instead of a hundred million. Maybe we could keep technological civilization going.

American plutocrats hope to survive that disaster in New Zealand. They think they can condemn the world to disaster and protect their own families from the consequences.

If they knew today that they could not succeed at this, because the dying masses would drag them back to share in those consequences, they might change their plans and prevent the disaster.

Supposedly American multinationals said they would "create lots of jobs" if given a big tax cut. But now that they think they can actually get it, they are saying they will give the money to their stockholders instead.

Letting businesses abuse workers and the public treasury in your country can sometimes convince businesses to move jobs there from other coutries. If only one country do this, it gets an economic boost (though probably little trickles down to the now increasingly mistreated workers).

But when countries in general join this competition, it becomes a policy of "beggar thy neighbor" which ultimately benefits businesses at the expense of all countries.

I am looking for people to help webmasters of various sites (not related to me or GNU) make simple but substantial changes in their web sites — for instance, to use the GNU Project's recommended terminology.

Robots in the near term will wipe out many of the better-paid jobs that still exist, leaving only low-paid service jobs to repay the student loans of many graduates.

Most of the ruling class have no plan to avoid mass descent into poverty.

Workers File More Than Thirty Wage Theft, Harassment, Intimidation Complaints Against Brands Owned by [the troll's] Embattled Labor Secretary Nominee.