Antibiotic-resistant bladder infections are linked to bacteria found in chicken treated with antibiotics.

We must end the regular use of antibiotics in farm animals, and if the result is to make meat more expensive, we'll probably eat a more healthful diet.

Correcting myths about retail jobs.

Now imagine what these people will do if they are replaced by automated sales machines. Beg on the street? That is why I refuse to use those machines, and call on other customers to refuse too.

Technology is not the main cause of increased poverty in the US. Mostly it is due to policies that favor the rich.

Nonetheless, eliminating millions of jobs through technology will add to the problem. The US does not need more efficiency, it needs to support everyone better.

A high and stable carbon price is needed to avert disaster.

I will go further and assert that this must be implemented via a carbon tax. A cap-and-trade system is easy to game.

Nonviolent protesters against the JP Morgan Chase bank face charges in the US carrying a year in prison.

Their protest criticized the company for bankrolling massive environmental damage that is going to kill thousands, maybe millions of people. Of the forecast of a hundred million human casualties from global heating by 2030, to be followed by larger numbers afterward, surely JP Morgan Chase will be responsible for at least 1%.

We see increased repression of environmental protesters, in the US as in Russia. I predict it will increase steadily, because the fossil fuel companies will demand ever more repression to keep a lid on the people who see the current system is going to kill them.

I just got a new passport. It came with a brochure whose front page says, "With Your U.S. Passport, the World Is Yours."

What a claim!