Donations to help poor countries take action regarding global heating lumps emissions reduction together with short-term protection from global heating effects.

It is a fundamental mistake to treat curing the disease and alleviating the symptoms as equivalent. The inhabitants of countries receiving aid will want to use the funds for alleviating the symptoms, and so will fossil fuel companies. But alleviating the systems will provide only a temporary benefit -- 30 years from now, its effect will be gone.

If we don't direct these funds to the long term reduction of greenhouse emissions, they will do nothing to save civilization and the ecosphere.

The urban segregation of 1960 persists in US cities, though it has shifted around to some extent. Partly this is maintained by the desire of the wealthier to use their influence and political power to create advantages for their children. They take advantage of many political systems to do this.

A new New York City law protects a few basic rights for gig workers that do food delivery. However, the companies will continue mistreating those workers in other ways, as the article says.

The food delivery companies do other nasty things. They mistreat their customers by insisting on identifying them via digital payment, and make them run nonfree software. Some of them exploit restaurants, which feel compelled to surrender to the exploitation because customers demand it.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, there are signs on the street urging people to pick up take-out themselves rather than use food delivery companies. Hear, hear!

The US has gone on a world-wide paroxysm of violence for 20 years, and naturally the effects reach the US as well as other countries.

There is a lot of violence in the human world (though humans are less violent than apes, and modern society is less violent than it was before). It is unfair to judge yourself as others as "complicit" in all that violence. Just having something in common with those responsible is not enough grounds to deduce complicity.

But it does mean we should try to reduce the violence.

US unions that represent fossil fuel workers are starting to reconcile the the short-to-medium-term needs of those workers with the overriding requisites for saving civilization.

In the past, those unions have lobbied against decarbonization. I hope they are now changing their positions. I support helping those workers get through decarbonization and avoid poverty.

I think this would be a lot easier if the US adopted progressive policies to help all poor people.