Zelenskyy accused Putin of planning to hold a worthless "referendum" in conquered areas of Ukraine. He did that in Crimea after conquering it, and the election was clearly bogus.

The enormous profits to be made from drug patents create pressure to corrupt the details of the patent system.

That's aside from the question of whether patents should apply to medicine, or to any other field.

Biden plans to offer money to keep unprofitable nuclear power plants operating.

Shutting down a nuclear power plant has a plus — it avoids making more radioactive material and gets a start on cleaning up the site.

I wonder how these payments will work. Will they be a simple subsidy? Or would the company have to pay something in return — perhaps its own stock? I think that when the state tries to aid a company, it should never be a simple subsidy; the state should demand payment in shares.

The most basic way to prevent the switch from nuclear power to fossil fuel power is to tax the use of fossil fuels heavily. That would not lead to building any new nuclear plants, as that is far too expensive, but it would encourage building renewable energy.

The US should speed up the conversion of US steel production to use hydrogen instead of coal.

The major Australian parties are all planet-roasters.