Due to increased temperatures, children who stay outdoors in Freetown, Sierra Leone, now risk heat rashes. Another global heating effect is diminishing crop yields. Meanwhile, the rising ocean is causing floods.

The city is trying to cope with the various problems, but treating the symptoms will work only so far. The only real solution is to stop the cause of the problem, and that is mainly in the big emitters: China, US, India, Europe, Australia.

Several Walgreens stores supported poor people in San Francisco through massive shoplifting. Now they plan to close the stores, because they are losing money.

I can't blame the company for closing these stores, but I also agree that the poor people of those neighborhoods deserve food to eat. I think it is the city's responsibility to provide food by setting up food banks in these areas, and pay for them out of taxes.

Four Kenyan thugs have been convicted of killing a British visitor in jail.

It took 9 years to do this, even helped by the aristocratic connections of the man they killed.

* The Organization of American States is no longer credible. We need a new body [to scrutinize democratic procedures] if we are to protect democracy [in the Americas].*

The article presents examples of how the OAS has acted duplicitously to favor US foreign policy.

*How workers unknowingly fund [fossil fuel companies] with their pensions,* which is risky for the workers as well as the world.