Slavoj Žižek: *We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis.*

*Yes, the liberal west is hypocritical, applying its high standards very selectively. But hypocrisy means you violate the standards you proclaim, and in this way you open yourself up to inherent criticism – when we criticize the liberal west, we use its own standards. … And the only way to defend what is worth saving in our liberal tradition is to ruthlessly insist on its universality.*

The delivery company Airgas employed drivers to drive heavy trucks full of gas (often CO2). It compels them to follow unsafe practices, and to lie to customers about how much gas is in the truck's cargo tank. A driver documented this and complained.

Australia permitted supply problems to slow the installation of renewable generation.

With a can-do attitude, these problems can be overcome, Here are examples:

Wind-turbine blades are expensive? Pay extra -- survival is worth it. Create the money to pay this via deficit spending, Create the money to pay this via deficit spending, or tax some rich people and businesses to cover the costs.

There is a production backlog on them? Set up a factory to make them domesticly.

People worry about whether the local factory will stay in business and pay for itself? Keep ordering more wind turbines.

A wind-turbine factory whose production is no longer needed is a lot less dangerous than an fossil fuel facility whose production is no longer needed. The latter would be used by planet roasters to lobby for too much fossil fuel extraction and dangerous levels of emissions.

*[Proposed] US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster.*

Putin's puppets in Kherson are going to "request" annexation of the city by Russia.