Frequent forest fires reduce the forest's carbon capture.

This is another positive feedback that will push us towards disaster.

The Environmental Poisoning Agency engaged in the most blatant stupidity to overlook evidence that Telone is carcinogenic.

* Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast.*

*Covid and the climate crisis show why we need a new social contract between old and young.*

Let's resist supposing that the question is whether to blame the baby boomers in general or generation z in general, because maybe it's neither. Plutocrats often play divide and rule. Setting the old and the young against each other is just their sort of thing.

The argument that we need to retire later, and thus keep working longer, makes perfect sense, but how can that be reconciled with the fact that lots of people in their 50s are already terminally out of work?

Meanwhile, the lifestyles of Americans are terribly inefficient. Surely we can do something to move to greater efficiency in our consumption.

*Who will clean up the 'billion-dollar mess' of abandoned US oil wells?*

Collapse, by Jared Diamond, explains how the same thing happens with mines: when the mine becomes unprofitable to operate, there is no money left in the company that owns it to clean it up.

Often the actual ownership of wells is left in small companies that can be allowed to go bankrupt, while the profits are in the megacorporations that buy from those small companies. Those will never go bankrupt.

A carbon tax could solve the problem. Part of the tax money could pay for closing wells. Of course, the tax should be a lot bigger than that, because its purpose is also to encourage switching to renewable energy.