California has canceled the approval of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, because of its danger to bees.

It is probably dangerous to other non-pest insects, too.

Congress must not trust the US military to take civilian casualties seriously and investigate them properly. Congress should do the investigating.

The UK denied asylum to Ethiopian Seyfu Jamaal, saying he would be safe in Ethiopia where civil war is spreading.

The world can produce enough food for the current human population. but it might take big social changes as well as changes in diets.

Resistance to those changes will be strong.

The smaller the human population, the smaller the necessary changes will be.

It looks like Bogus Johnson ordered an evacuation plane to take rescue dogs and cats out of Afghanistan and leave some human beings behind.

This shows why I agree only to a limited extent with idea of animal rights: because strong support tends to lead people to save dogs they love rather than human beings they don't know.

I doubt that Bogus Johnson really cared about those pets, any more than he cares about Afghans or Britons in general. But I think that Farthing must have cared about the pets, and that motivated him to use some sort of personal connection to get this favor from Johnson.