*"Invisible Toxic Cocktail" in Tap Water Across US Due to "Regulatory Capture".*

Many poisonous substances found in tap water are not regulated at all by the EPA. These include the PFAs

plus many more.

*"Invisible Toxic Cocktail" in Tap Water Across US Due to "Regulatory Capture".*

Many poisonous substances found in tap water are not regulated at all by the EPA. These include the PFAs plus many more.

Author Jen Wasserstein says, "My life without a smartphone is getting harder and harder."

Good on her to resist, but she should stop doubting the rightness of her resistance.

It is interesting to compare her account my own experiences this year without any portable phone whatsoever, in Europe as well as the US. There were inconvenient moments, but I always got through them.

I am fortified in my resistance by knowing powerful moral reasons to condemn portable phones. It's not just that I find their effect on other people alarming. I recognize them as a threat to democracy due to their massive general surveillance

as well as an injustice to each user (due to their remotely modifiable nonfree software). As a result, I never feel abashed about rejecting them, nor ashamed if the ignorant look askance. I am proud of my resistance.

When a waiter tells me to scan a QR code, I move my finger slowly over it while staring at it intently, as if a menu should magically appear. After sufficient time, I may say, "It doesn't seem to be working." Try it, it's fun!

Please join me in resisting the pressure to make everyone run nonfree software. Even if you only say no once, saying no even once is helping.

And once you've said no the first time, the second time is easier.

*Restoring mangrove swamps could be an effective way of sequestering large amounts of carbon in the sea.*

I see two possible problems with it.

• The amount that can be done is limited by the length of suitable shoreline that can be used.
• Whatever mangroves people restore, sea-level rise could destroy in a few decades. Will that release the carbon they will have sequestered?

Extinction Rebellion protested at Cop26 against apparent greenwashing.

The thugs are threatening protesters and blocking protests.