The US Supreme Court has put itself in a state of war with the people, by obstructing climate defense; but there is a court decision from 2016 which ruled that future generations have a right to a stable climate, which might help.

States that adopt liberal policies towards the non-rich have a lower death rate for adults age 25 to 64. States with right-wing policies have a higher death rate.

Projecting from the data, *Changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019," the researchers estimate, "while changing them to a fully [right-wing] orientation might have cost 217,635 lives."*

I replaced the word "conservative" because today's right-wingers are radical, not conservative.

The US and around 20 other countries established a Forest and Climate Leaders' Partnership, supposedly to reduce deforestation. Greenpeace says it's ineffective, just for show.

*[Entities that] continue to invest in fossil fuels, deforestation, and other activities that exacerbate the climate emergency cannot claim to be net-zero.*

I take a stronger stand. "Net zero" is an excuse for bogus "offset" schemes, a way to pretend that they will reduce emissions, while in fact failing to do so. We must stop using that concept and focus on reducing actual emissions.

Consider for instance Partanna's CO2-absorbing building material. Building with it helps reduce CO2 in the air, but if these reductions are converted into a "credit", that indirectly lets someone else keep emitting more.

*Discipline the poor, protect the rich — it’s the same old Tories, same old class war.*

Two Hungarian judges met with the US ambassador; Orbán organized a media defamation campaign aimed at them. Other judges say this is a campaign of intimidation designed to make sure no one else in Hungary meets with anyone from the US government.