Australia could reduce greenhouse emissions by 35% instead of 26% (for 2030) with a little more money.

In any case, the costs are small.

My memory is not the best, but isn't 35% by 2030 still too little, too late? All the pledges for the Paris conference are too little. Global heating disaster will have its own costs, tremendous costs in subsequent decades.

If "international permits" means what I think it does, that is likely to make the entire scheme ineffective. It is too easy for someone in another country to fake a future "reduction" and sell it.

The US states with the most children also make it hardest for children to have good health and education.

This is partly because poverty causes more births.

Nutritionists Slam Coca-Cola Funded Scientists Over Deceptive Soda Message.

It is spreading denial through a front group, the "Global Energy Balance Network", following the tobacco industry model.

Scotland has banned GMO farming.

Now that the US fights its wars without ground combat, it no longer faces an antiwar movement. It can deny civilian casualties and exaggerate enemy casualties with almost no checks.