Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) pledge to work together to protect their rain forests. The whole world depends on those forests they are all threatened.

The concept of "the OPEC of rainforests" seems like a misguided analogy to me, because oil and rainforests are not very similar in how they relate to the world. Rainforests provide an important service by living. By contrast, oil underground does nothing to the world; extracting it makes it harmful.

If we could make more rainforest, that would be good. If we could make more underground petroleum deposits, that would be disaster.

Attorney General Garland's policies to protect reporters from prosecution for their journalism are a big improvement, but an authoritarian president could twist them or simply replace them.

*Nurses across UK vote to strike in first ever national action.*

*House Democrats Propose End to Wall Street Rent-Gouging.*

Cop27 will discuss whether part of the world should be liable for damage already done by burning fossil fuel.

I suggest that we make fossil fuel companies liable. With that big debt, they won't be worth much in money. So let's nationalize them and buy them out, paying what their shares are worth at that time.

The US has done this many times, in times of crisis, as described in the article linked above. We should not listen when planet roasters claim this is unthinkable now.

Whatever is left of those companies after fossil fuels have been mostly replaced by renewable energy, it could be safe to sell off to private owners.