Billionaire Polluters say that demand for fossil fuels will not increase. What is not certain is when it will start to decrease.

That detail is tremendously important. Bigger fires are coming soon to a forest near you, and if you'd prefer to have them only a little bigger rather than much bigger, you'd be wise to help make sure the demand declines fast.

12 Hong Kongers tried to separate themselves from China in a boat, but Chinese forces caught them and China will prosecute them — perhaps for "separatism" — in a bogus trial.

The very idea of stopping citizens from leaving a country is a form of tyranny which Communist governments were well known for. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union charged a ransom giving a Jew permission to emigrate. In earlier decades, it was very difficult for anyone to get permission to leave the Soviet Empire. Since 2000, millions of Chinese were allowed to travel for tourism. but I would guess that China never completely dropped the practice of forbidding some people from leaving.

Bogus Johnson pretends to be negotiating a larger deal with the EU while cheating on last year's smaller deal.

Ideas for a circular economy of plastics.

*World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature — UN report.*