Global supplies of soybeans, coffee, chocolate, and palm oil will be cut by global heating, even if we curb emissions quickly.

They will be cut a lot more, over time, if we fail to curb emissions.

Andy Slavitt hinted at how some Americans (Republicans) were too selfish in confronting Covid-19, and refused to do the little things that save other people's health and lives, They should have made little sacrifices such as wearing masks, keeping distance, getting vaccinated. What they opposed was the principle that we ought to help each other. "War on Earth, ill will to men."

He touched the right-wingers' nerve because what he said is evidently true. So they began spewing gibberish as white noise to drown out his message.

Delta variant has to start a wave that will kill or disable a lot of antivaxxers. As people see the pattern that Republicans spread human death and Democrats more or less protect human life, they may learn not to trust Republicans.

*[Minister] Michael Gove's civil service plans threaten impartiality, says union leader.*

Tories plan to deregulate businesses across the board.

Contracts will be awarded in "agile" ways, thus regularizing the Tory practice of giving contracts to companies run by friends of ministers, whether or not they have the capacity to do the job or the experience to do it right Planning will also be agile, so that local people won't be able to argue against plans that would harm them. (Unless it's a land-based wind farm; Tories want those all to be blocked.)

How plutocracy co-opts and perverts the defense of freedom and autonomy — using consumerism. Zuckerberg wanted to buy the rights to "Another Brick In the Wall" to use it to promote Instagram, which is a very big collection of bricks in the wall of surveillance.

Musician Roger Waters, author of the song, condemned Facebook and stated support for Julian Assange.