*Wildfires broke carbon emission records from Siberia to the American west.*

The British government formally apologized for failing to enforce fire regulations, with the result that 72 people died in a fire spread by flammable building materials.

Now will it take responsibility for fixing firetrap apartments that people bought, who now can't afford to pay to make them safe? The government agreed to pay for this for tall buildings, but arbitrarily decided to leave the people in shorter buildings trapped there.

* Since 1995, members of the global 1% have captured 38% of all new wealth while the poorest half of humanity has benefited from just 2%.*

*Global inequality "as marked as it was at peak of western imperialism."*

California has canceled the approval of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, because of its danger to bees.

It is probably dangerous to other non-pest insects, too.

Congress must not trust the US military to take civilian casualties seriously and investigate them properly. Congress should do the investigating.