*South African court bans offshore oil and gas exploration by Shell.* This has a good chance of keeping some fossil fuels unextracted, which is what we need to do world-wide to avoid global heating disaster, given the fact that we have used up the carbon budget.

EU citizens: call on your MEPs to vote to stop classifying "forest biomass" as a "renewable energy source".

Burning wood on a small scale is renewable, but it tends to get out of hand and result in destruction of forests. Lots of small-scale users in Haiti eliminated most of the forests in that country. Nowadays, the EU policy encourages industrial-scale burning of wood, and the deforestation at industrial scale.

There isn't time, before the disaster we need to try to avoid, for new trees to grow. We must stop the cutting and burning of the existing trees.

US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to protect our economy and communities from Wall Street funded climate chaos.

US citizens: call on your state representative to help end the construction of new natural gas infrastructure.

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Pressure from China — threats of noncooperation — delayed the UN report on repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang for a whole year.

Bad as racism, plutocracy and media bias are in the US, we must not forget that things can get far, far worse — and China shows what that is like.

The US bullies some Muslims to act as spies on their friends. China bullies all Chinese to act as spies and agents of pressure, and bullies international institutions to serve its will.

Putin has recently reshaped Russia into a sort of quasi-China. He engages in cruelty massively, but in a more emotional fashion than China's machine-like callousness; meanwhile, his grip on Russians is still not as tight as Chairman Xi's. There is a chance to defeat Putin before he can reach that point.