Australia is hosting an international conference about mining, including coal mining, and threatens protesters with harsh punishments if they get in the way.

Thugs are visiting activists at home to threaten them personally. Here's an example: environmental activist Alister Ferguson.

The repressive law that has been applied to Ferguson was passed by the right-wing government that remains in power in New South Wales. How twisted it is to pin the label of "terrorists" on environment defenders instead of on coal miners.

A bizarre combination of laws limits how much you or I could donate to an election campaign, but billionaires can lawfully spend millions on them.

(satire) *Texas Launches Outreach Program To Provide Troubled Teens With Assault Rifles.*

* Ellekan, an islet in Marshall Islands, has been reduced to a pile of sand in the middle of the reef. Those who loved it have already held its funeral.*

Many other low islands face inundation due to global heating, and their inhabitants will become climate refugees. Entire countries will be wiped out in this way.

The whole territory of the United States won't be inundated, only a small percentage. But it includes parts of big cities, so the inhabitants displaced will amount to millions. Likewise in China, India, and Europe.

*If we keep abusing nature it will collapse, taking us with it. We need a new mindset.*