The US fossil fuel companies stay afloat (those that aren't already bankrupt) only because of government subsidies. The wrecker has effectively increased the subsidies by cutting what these companies have to pay for extracting publicly owned resources.

*Despite DNC Focus on Winning 'Biden Republicans,' New Poll Suggests Beating Trump 'All About Democratic Turnout'.*

I think the reason that the "centrist" corporatist Democrats choose to aim for support from Republicans is that pre-wrecker Republicans are closer to their corporatist positions than progressives are.

The UK has preemptively arrested some Extinction Rebellion activists for some sort of protest plan.

(satire) *Fox News announced Wednesday that they had limited their pandemic coverage to avoid giving the Covid-19 the notoriety it craved.* https://www.theonion.com/fox-news-limits-pandemic-coverage-to-avoid-giving-coron-1844855729

It is very easy for mining companies in Australia to get permission to destroy old aboriginal sites. They have obtained such permission for hundreds of siteswhich they have not destroyed yet.

The sites which are of archaeological significance, or might be so — which means, all or nearly all of them — should be protected unconditionally for the sake of science.