Exxon (and other oil companies) are trying to distract us by committing to to eliminate the greenhouse emissions from their own operations.

Those emissions are nothing compared with the emissions generated when their customers burn the oil or gas that Exxon sells them. That is the real problem.

*An annual wealth tax targeting the world's millionaires and billionaires would raise enough revenue to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty, provide universal healthcare to the people of low- and middle-income nations, and produce enough coronavirus vaccines to meet global demand.*

A bill in the US Congress would try to prohibit targeted advertising based on certain personal characteristics, such as Google does. For instance, it would be forbidden to target an ad to "gay men".

Would the bill also forbid targeting an ad to a complicated criterion, which Google chose to correlate well with being a gay man? I think that's what Google actually does.

Students in many US cities have demanded proper Covid protection or they will refuse to go to school.

Exxon is suing the California officials who brought suit against Exxon for deceitfully denying its part in global heating.

The argument based on the First Amendment is absurd. Indeed, the First Amendment covers claiming that burning oil does not cause global heating. It is not a crime to make that claim. But that is not an excuse, if making that claim was part of a scheme to damage other people and they sue.

It worries me greatly that judges are reportedly giving credence to that argument.