*UK to support plans for new global treaty to 'turn tide' on plastic pollution.*

What Labour proposes for curbing global heating is not much better than what the Tories say they will do.

Erin Brockovich: Biden has chosen for his EPA transition board someone who helped DuPont campaign for continued pollution with one of the toxic PFAs.

I write the "s" of "PFAs" in lower case because it is not an initial: it indicates the plural of "PFA."

*The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system.*

This is a well-known reason why markets give bad results in some cases. The costs that the product imposes on people other than the one who buys it are called "externalities."

The fatal apartment building fire in London was caused by fraud and deceit, facilitated by deregulation, and promoted by plutocratist disdain for the lives of people who are not rich.

The first reaction of the organizations that owned other buildings with similar fire hazards was to dump the cost of retrofitting on the occupants of the flats, who couldn't possibly have paid it. I hope that these revelations (which surely apply to other buildings that use the same firetrap material) will put the burden onto organizations that are actually responsible.