Arguing that the transition to clean energy will inevitably involve a stage of using much less energy than now. Depletion of the easy-extract fossil fuels will make energy more expensive, years before we have enough green energy capacity to fill ths shortfall.

The President of Palau: *Frankly speaking, there is no dignity to a slow and painful death -— you might as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer only to witness our slow and fateful demise.*

A stage production directed by Terry Gilliam has been cancelled because staff at the theater objected to some of his political views.

Cancellationists seek universal support for their political stances, not by convincing everyone that they are right, but by bullying everyone who states any doubts.

Australia's resources minister gave a subsidy to a fracking project without even considering climate effects.

Australia should have a climate defense minister rather than a "resources" minister.

Cop26 has launched a fund that aims to give 1.7 billion dollars to indigenous peoples, and other local communities, for the sake of ending deforestation.

The money will be used to "support [their] capacity to govern themselves collectively, assist with mapping and registration work, back national land reform and help resolve conflict over territories."

This can be a good idea, but it needs to be done carefully. Indigenous peoples are made up of human beings who have the same moral and intellectual flexibility as other human beings. After the US divided up the land of various Indian reservations as private property of various Indians, many of them agreed to sell that property to whites. (That was, I think, the US's aim in dividing the land.)

We should give local communities the authority to protect forests and ecosystems, but not the authority to sell them or despoil them.