UN special rapporteur David Boyd warns that three proposed repressive UK laws would *make human rights violations more likely to occur and less likely to be punished.*

People in the Florida Keys are starting to recognize that their islands are doomed because of global heating.

To raise their homes enough to escape flooding in the short term would cost more than they can afford. Worse than that, it would only delay the disaster, not prevent it -- the work would have to be repeated, with increasing frequency, and that would be money ill spent.

Millions of people will lose their homes due to sea level rise, and for in most cases we can't protect them for very long.

We have to focus on treating the disease, not the symptoms. The disease is greenhouse gas emission and the treatment is to curb emissions.

Forest protectors are attaching themselves to trees and roads to prevent logging of the remaining ancient trees in British Columbia (Canada).

The US endorsed the validity of the Peruvian election.

This is definitively better than how the US used to act.

Some indigenous Australians criticize Western Australia's bill to change the rules meant to protect the sites containing ancient indigenous art.

I support protecting them, but the AHAA seems to say that the destruction of ancient indigenous art is acceptable provided that the "holders of this cultural heritage give consent." I do not agree with that. Those sites include some of the oldest art in the world; it is part of the heritage of all humanity. No one group should be authorized to give consent for their destruction. On the contrary, we should make it very hard for anyone to get legal permission to do that.

We should not romanticize indigenous humans. They are humans, and susceptible to corruption by money or power like other humans. Just now an indigenous group in Canada opposes efforts to protect the remnant old growth rainforest in British Columbia, because it gets paid for the trees that are cut down.

I think logging is legitimate and useful -- as long as it doesn't go too far. In particular, we must preserve the small old growth forests that remain.