Burning all the currently known fossil fuel reserves would exceed the carbon budget by 7 times.

In the absence of some massively deployed future CO2 extraction system, that would bring certain disaster.

On a secondary issue, the fossil fuel industry claims falsely to employ 11 million Americans. In fact, jobs numbered roughly 700,000 in 2019, and only 500,000 today.

Obviously, destroying civilization and the ecosphere in a few decades is too high a price to pay to keep a few million people employed for a decade or two — even if it would really achieve that. There are lots of other ways for the state to support workers.

Israel is about to extract natural gas from an undersea deposit claimed also by Lebanon.

As with all international disputes about which country has the right to extract certain deposits of fossil fuel, the only acceptable answer is, "Leave it in the Earth!"

Protests in many parts of Iran continue, triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, who seems to have been beaten by religious thugs on account of her clothing.

The thugs and the state take the usual authoritarian "We never do anything wrong, shame on you" stance, that we have seen in many countries before, including the US.

Truss's plans for policy changes amount to an across-the-board attack on the non-rich, the dreams of an antisocialist ideologue.

I fear that they will include business-supremacy treaties that would be difficult for the next government to fix or escape from. Meanwhile, I suspect that Starmer, who is rather right-wing himself, like a US plutocratist Democrat, won't seek to fix more than a fraction of them.

Republican-controlled states refuse to test sewage sludge for PFAs before spreading it on farmland.