British climate defenders painted a government building black in honor of the government's plans to open a new coal mine. That building holds the office of the minister who approved a new coal mine.

*Tax the Wealthy At Least 75%, Says Oxfam. Do It Now.*

*Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century.*

Billionaires strive to undermine democracy to pass laws to transfer more wealth to them. But desire for even more wealth is not their only reason. Some also make a political calculation that if workers are in penury they will be unable to organize to resist. So they seek to push workers down to penury.

That ideology appeared by the late 1700s and it is still influential today among billionaire right-wingers.

*Wild caught, freshwater fish in the United States are far more contaminated with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” than those commercially caught in oceans,*

This makes sense. The PFAs in a lake is basically stuck there, while those released into the ocean can diffuse through the whole volume of the ocean.

What is clear is that we must stop filling the water with these toxins.