Thailand has arrested a Russian dissident rock band and threatens to deport them to Russia, where Putin would imprison them.

Some investors in BP are demanding it cancel plans to ramp down fossil fuel extraction, saying it could make more money pumping more.

A few decades from now, if we do not curb global heating, all that wealth will disappear along with the framework in which it is meaningful, But these fools don't look at the long term.

What this shows is that we must force the world to reduce fossil fuel extraction at a planned pace. We must make the world does not fulfill these short-sighted investors' expectations.

Global heating is causing sea-level rise. The better-off people in the prosperous parts of Miami (mostly whites) want to move west to higher ground, into neighborhood now inhabited mainly by blacks. To facilitate this, redevelopment projects tear down old housing projects and build new housing, most of which is rented out for more than the old inhabitants can afford.

Because of the extent of racism in the US, this phenomenon has a racial tinge. The wealthier people who drive poor people out of higher ground are more often white, and the poor people driven out tend to be nonwhite.

But that detail is not what makes this an injustice. If the people moving in were the same mix of races as those being driven out, only richer, the injustice would be the same. A good society is not cruel to anyone.

Governments ought to buy out every residence in what is or will be a flood zone, and build new flood-safe rental housing for tenants to move to. And help people move out of regions such as Florida, which are going to be too hot and wet whether inundated or not. That is what progressive officials would do -- while reducing the size of this problem by vigorously curbing global heating.

The Tories are now considering imposing conscription on the UK because young people don't want to join the army.

There is not much about the UK as it is misgoverned that would inspire people to fight to defend it. The only argument I know of is, "Government could be even worse."

Australia finds that car manufacturer are still publishing greatly underestimated figures for pollution emissions.