The US military uses a highly polluting method (burn pits) to dispose of most kinds of inconvenient waste in deployment bases.

It causes avoidable injury to US solders, and also to the local civilians. But it's cheap for the Pentagon, supposing it doesn't bear the cost of treating those injuries. Now it will have to pay to treat the US veterans, but not the local civilians.

Don't forget about the diseases caused to both US soldiers and local civilians by Depleted Uranium.

Worshipers of the Invisible Hand have seriously proposed that people should become corporations and sell shares in themselves to raise funds to invest in their education.

That's effectively a way of selling a fraction of yourself into slavery. A few may become successful, while many become controlled by their shareholders. The rich who own the shares will dominate the decisions about the laws to regulate this system.

The book, The Unincorporated Man by Kollin and Kollin, describes a future world in which this has happened. The people in that world are used to the system and defend it, but at the end we see that forces everyone to be partly owned by whoever buys stock in them.

Please do not get it from Amazon!

Investigation finds probable racism in how British thugs applied the rules for fines for violating Covid rules.

They were supposed to apply their discretion to make fines a last resort; now ever, they were much quicker to fine black.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.

As Greenland's ice melts and exposes some areas of land, people are prospecting for rare metals.

There are no established ecosystems on those areas, but mining can spread pollution in many ways. It could pollute the land so that plants can't grow there; it can pollute the nearby seas.

*Brazilians fear return to dictatorship as "deranged" Bolsonaro trails in polls.*

Like the wrecker in the US, Bolsonaro has talked about refusing to hand over power peacefully.

People fear he will try to organize mobs on Brazil's independence day to overthrow democracy, perhaps arranging a false flag attack on them as an excuse.