George Monbiot: it makes no sense to think of climate, biodiversity loss, pollution, soil loss, and resource overuse as unrelated issues, since they drive each other and may even potentiate each other.

He argues that the only way to avoid ruining the ecosphere is to reduce economic activity.

Biden continues the bully's excuse for denying people the right to come to the US border and ask for asylum.

The excuse is that Covid-19 is a medical emergency, and any immigrant who has Covid-19 is a threat because perse might be infected. We can imagine situations where that would be a valid position, but not at the border of Republican dominated Texas. Border-crossers are hardly significant, as a source of Covid-19 in Texas, compared with Republican US citizens.

We can understand why the bully did this: it offered him a way to use a scapegoat for distraction. But unless Biden is no better, he should stop using the excuse.

Ken Loach condemns the Labour Party's purges of Corbyn's supporters, and those (including himself) who took a stand against purges. Meanwhile, antisemitism in the party is no longer treated as a big concern, now that Jewish Corbynites are the targets. This confirms that it was exaggerated as an excuse.

I suppose the plutocrats don't care whether Labour is tamed or crippled, as long as it can't won't make trouble for them.

Loach calls on those who have been driven out of Labour to start a new party.

Greta Thunberg says that world leaders are giving little more than lip service to the need to cut greenhouse emissions.

*EU lawmakers vote to prolong fossil fuel gas subsidies until 2027.*

Note how the use of hydrogen is being treated as "low emissions", even if it is made the cheap way by burning fossil fuel. Likewise, "biofuels" are treated as "low emissions" even if they are made from crops that require fertilizers and pesticides, and wood chips are treated as "low emissions" even if made from trees cut in another continent. The fallacy of these decisions is widely reported, but politicians disregard it.