US citizens: phone your senators to support taxing the rich more.

Here's a suggested script to say.

Hello, my name is _____________ and I'm a constituent of the senator's. I am calling to urge Senator _________ to support the tax reform plan being put forward by Senator Wyden and Majority Leader Schumer. It will raise the revenue needed to fully fund the Build Back Better plan by making the rich and corporations begin paying their fair share of taxes. Senator Wyden's tax plan includes the Billionaires Income Tax, which I strongly support. It is critical that billionaires start paying taxes on their investment gains each year the same as workers like me pay taxes on our wages each year. Again, I urge the senator to support Senator Wyden's tax plan and his Billionaires Income Tax. Thank you.

US citizens: phone your senators to support taxing the rich more.

Here's a suggested script to say.

Hello, my name is _____________ and I’m a constituent of the senator’s. I am calling to urge Senator _________ to support the tax reform plan being put forward by Senator Wyden and Majority Leader Schumer. It will raise the revenue needed to fully fund the Build Back Better plan by making the rich and corporations begin paying their fair share of taxes. Senator Wyden’s tax plan includes the Billionaires Income Tax, which I strongly support. It is critical that billionaires start paying taxes on their investment gains each year the same as workers like me pay taxes on our wages each year. Again, I urge the senator to support Senator Wyden’s tax plan and his Billionaires Income Tax. Thank you.

Salafi Arabia says it will achieve net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2060, even more late than the Paris agreement.

The details hardly matter, given that this refers only to Salafi Arabia's direct emissions, and does not include the emissions that result in other countries from using the petroleum that Salafi Arabia sells to them.

By contrast, the commitment to cut methane emissions by 2030 will be significant, if it really happens. Planting billions of trees could do some good…if they survive global heating.

*The White House released a report on the financial risks associated with the climate crisis — a document critics say would have been promising at some earlier point in history but that falls "pitifully" short given the urgency of the crisis.*

Anti-vaxxers now spread the questionable claim that recovering from Covid-19 gives more immunity than vaccination.

I don't know whether there is a systematic difference between the levels of immunity that result from Covid-19 infection and from vaccination, but it's clear that the former is much more risky — the chance of lasting disability after an infection seems to be more than 10%.

Given the choice between getting vaccinated now, or waiting to catch the disease, it is far better to get vaccinated.