Arguing that paleolithic humans in many parts of the world had a wide range of social organizations, and that it was quite usual for a people to switch during the year between various forms of social organizations — even between nomadic bands and farmers.

If it was common during hundreds of thousands of years to gain the status of chief by success in leadership while alternating annually between two levels of social organization with two different relationship requirements for success, this would have been a selective force towards ever greater emotional intelligence.

New Zealand is passing a law that will increase housing construction and promote denser housing.

*‘Some call it a circus’: dictator’s son, boxing icon and former actor vie to lead Philippines.*

The UK's plan to fund replacement of 90,000 home boilers with heat pumps is at the same time a substantial step forward, and totally inadequate.

That happens often because the efforts so far to defend the climate are several orders of magnitude less than what is needed.

I've also read claims that these heat pumps are not very efficient.

The UK is going to spend millions to pay for building two large facilities for CO2 capture,

CCS may eventually work, but we need to remember that (1) it will take many years to finish these facilities, (2) it can't capture all the CO2 produced in the factory or power plant it is attached to, and (3) building solar and wind power will avoid a lot more CO2 emissions for the same amount of energy. It might ultimately be useful, especially for making concrete, since clean electricity won't help with that.