Studying the challenge of a global Green New Deal: how to structure it, how to fund it, and what won't help (nationalization and GDP-reduction).

One flaw of the study is that it adopts the targets of the Paris Treaty, which are too little and too late. But I expect that the overall conclusions will be the same with stronger targets.

The bully's hatchet man in charge of Voice of America has officially eliminated its editorial independence, making it the Voice of the US President.

*Doing Nothing About Climate Emergency Could Cost More Than All the Wealth in the World.*

That indicates the calculation is meaningless. Because if we're talking about the total destruction of humanity and a lot more, it is impossible and unnecessary to measure that in economic terms.

Which supports the point that the article is making: it is idiotic to say that avoiding total disaster is "too expensive". And foolish to ask, "If we save the world, will I still have a job?"

(satire) *Following over two decades of incarceration, Louisiana Penitentiary inmate Reggie Clark, a man falsely imprisoned for 24 years, was finally granted permission Wednesday to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the prison’s new Wrongly Accused Wing.*

*From simple location-tracking apps to buttons that measure biometrics, college campuses have amped up surveillance in response to Covid-19.*

The article lacks a sharp conception for judging whether these systems are just or unjust and necessary or unnecessary, and for separating those characteristics from painfulness.

The conditions Vassar students had to sign up to must be very painful, and I might have taken a year off rather than accept them. But they are not unjust and may well be necessary to open the campus safely.

The PathCheck app's actions, assuming that the article describes them fully and accurately, seem to be legitimate provided the college makes proper commitments not to let any company or other organization handle any of the data nor to save it nor use it for anything else. But the fact that it is a nonfree app running in a mobile phone makes it unacceptable.

I'd apply the same criteria to reporting one's symptoms daily. That is ok, provided one doesn't have to do it via a portable phone or a nonfree program, and the school won't let any other organization handle the data, or save it for long.