*Europe to miss 2030 climate goal by 21 years at current pace — study.*

*[Climate crisis] deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade.* When one fallacious argument ceases to be believed, they fall back to the next line of delusion.

People from disprivileged groups were particularly likely to die in and near New York City from Hurricane Ida's flooding, because the shortage of housing had pushed them into living in basements that were not safe.

*Estimated Cost of Post-9/11 US Wars Hits $8 Trillion With Nearly a Million People Dead.*

I am pretty sure that the total of one million is based on an underestimate of the number of Iraqis killed — for instance, the figure from Iraq Body Count, which counted only the deaths which could be individually verified.

Cancellation as mob rule: the article compares it with the Puritans of old New England.

To me, it resembles the Red Guards that I read about in Life and Death in Shanghai (Nien Cheng).

Although people attempted to cancel me two years ago, what has happened to me is not as bad as what happened to those described in the article. I was fortunate.