The concept of an individual's "carbon footprint" was invented by Billionaire Polluters' PR company, to distract people from demanding the big changes that can only be made with the help of governments.

I wish the Guardian would stop publishing articles that focus people's attention on reducing their individual contributions to greenhouse emissions. Especially since they almost always omit the most important thing an individual can do is to have fewer children.

California thugs picked up disinformation talking about "Antifa" and ran with it.

We cannot afford to have people with a right-wing bias in positions where they can bias the administration of justice.

*Extinction Rebellion occupy Norway's oil ministry as part of 10-day protest.*

In London they only occupied a busy junction.

The UK's Minister of Love wants to label Extinction Rebellion as "extremist". This would open the door to extreme repression of Britons who are not content to wait quietly while global heating destroys their country.

The same government is meanwhile dreaming up excuses for greenwashing the expansion of fossil fuel use.

Poland plans to build a wall on the border with Belarus to block unauthorized immigrants, some of whom would ask for asylum.

Aside from the treaties about asylum, and the moral duty to offer asylum, I am not sure an 8-foot wall would actually stop able-bodied migrants. Belarus would surely equip them with ladders.

Record-breaking rain in Tennessee has killed people and destroyed houses. I hope this makes some Republicans aware of the urgency of curbing the global heating, which has already progressed so far as to cause disasters like this around the world.