*Bust of Klan leader is removed from Tennessee state capitol after decades.*

It is interesting that it was installed in 1978. Like the monuments installed in the early 20th century, it celebrated slavery and racism.

A new proposed agreement to slow the destruction and extinction of wildlife is inadequate, like the Paris agreement on climate defense, because it only calls for nonbinding targets.

It should be noted that if we don't curb global heating, it will cause extinction of lots of species, regardless of whatever other measures we take to protect them. Ecosystems depend on relationships of species, each of which is adapted to the conditions created by the others, and to aspects of the climate (such as, the typical temperature in March). Global heating messes it all up.

Australian lobbying of various countries prevented UNESCO from designating the Great Barrier Reef as "endangered".

We all know that it is endangered by CO2 emissions, both because of global heating and because of the ocean acidification caused by CO2. For UNESCO to acknowledge this would have helped the cause of curbing those emissions.

Hong Kong has sentenced people that attacked protesters in 2019 to years in prison.

This is at least a little bit of even-handed law enforcement. However, it cannot overcome the repression.

*Reform unemployment, US workers say, as Covid reveals chaotic systems.*