Australia approves fossil fuel facilities based on estimates of how much greenhouse gas the facility will emit once operating. But there is no effort to verify it stays within that limit. Some facilities emit a lot more.

It seems that the system has been designed to avoid inconvenience for planet-roasters.

Pipeline opponents used axes to wreck construction equipment being used to construct a gas pipeline along on Canada's Pacific coast.

a Intentional destruction of property is a crime. But is destruction of equipment for building fossil fuel infrastructure as bad a crime as building that infrastructure? We know that that will cause, over a few decades, the destruction of a far larger amount of property, and much of that will be to property of ordinary people rather than a planet-roaster enterprise.

The people that attacked the work camp avoided attacking humans, but global heating is already killing millions of people per year and will surely kill tens of millions per year in a few decades.

Thus, I think that the necessity defense applies morally, even if not legally.

What disturbs me about this attack is that it is an escalation. It may inspire other escalations, in retaliation and/or by right-wing extremists. I wish it had not come to this.

US citizens: call on banks to defund the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to support the Right Whale Coexistence Act.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

The WHO has decided to help five more non-rich countries make RNA vaccines.

One crucial question I have not seen answered: are these countries allowed to make vaccines for other countries, or only for their own use? What are the rules for this?