Plastic is accumulating in the fish that Pacific islanders eat; their main source of protein.

Once all the coral are gone, much of the fish will be gone, and this problem will be replaced with a worse problem.

AOC introduced a bill to require federal thugs to wear visible identification.

The US military wants to develop "optionally manned" vehicles and ships so their crews won't be vulnerable to fast-spreading diseases.

Requiring fewer human operators does not raise any particular issue, except that such systems will be very expensive to develop and probably won't work reliably. However, designing them to operate without humans means they must either be remote-controlled — dependent on communications that will be slow and can be jammed — or autonomous killers.

The concept of "optionally manned" seems designed to smooth over that morally and practically important frontier and thus evade attention to crossing it.

Ralph Nader: many blatant forms of decay show that the US is badly broken.

Focusing politics on fighting racism will not eliminate poverty. The main cause of poverty in the US is dooH niboR, and the best way to reduce the poverty of blacks is to change the systems that reduce most Americans to poverty.

The article's point is valid as regards the economic consequences of racism, but racism does other kinds of wrong as well. Blacks are not only more likely to be poor, they are also more likely to be stopped on the street by thugs, beaten by thugs, shot by thugs. Poor blacks are more likely to be denied good education, good jobs, and good medical care, than poor whites. They are more likely to be convicted of crimes than whites whose conduct is similar.

Redistribution of wealth would eliminate much of the suffering of blacks today (along with that of other groups), but racism would still be an injustice.

Thus, we should campaign against racism. But don't get distracted from dooH niboR!