Governments set on extracting fossil fuels are changing laws so they can ram this down people's throats.

Australia and the UK have also changed laws to stop people from preventing extraction of fossil fuel.

Politicians that approach global heating like politics as usual don't understand that physics won't meet them half way for the sake of a deal.

Most US supermarket chains have agreed not to sell genetically engineered salmon. Costco is one of the holdouts.

I think it is unlikely that the genetically engineered salmon would harm humans that eat them. But harm to wild salmon is a real possibility. There are many other things that could go wrong, which we would not know how to fix.

Canada has pressed charges against the Syrian officer that tortured Maher Arar, but not yet against the Americans that kidnaped him and handed him over to Syria for torture.

Fewer toys can be good for children's imagination.

A few years ago I visited a friend who had a typical large American house, with several rooms littered with piles of toys. I was shocked, but I suspect most Americans would find it normal.