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Economy revival and climate

mardi 28 juillet 2020 à 02:00

* European countries are spending big to revive their economies, but they will have no legitimacy with young people if they ignore the climate.*

Animals traffic

mardi 28 juillet 2020 à 02:00

*Millions of animals trafficked from the Amazon annually — report.*

Suppression of information and cover up

mardi 28 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Accusing China of suppressing information about the spread of Covid-19 for about three weeks in January, and covering this up later.

One specific item — taking 2 or 3 days to respond to questions from WHO — does not strike me as culpable. It can take anyone a little time to determine what to say. However, the other points do seem culpable.

But nowhere near as big a crime as what right-wing officials have done in countries such as Australia, Brazil, and the United States.

Negative CO2 emissions predictions

mardi 28 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The UK electricity grid predicts negative CO2 emissions from electric generation, but that is based on hypothetical carbon capture systems which are not known to work.

Running trucks on electricity from overhead wires is expected to be profitable. That idea does not seem to presume any dubious technological advances.

Cops protecting the public

lundi 27 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Ordinary Cuban cops are not cruel to ordinary Cubans. They seriously work to serve and protect the public. That Cuba protects people from becoming desperately poor helps prevent the sort of crime that people want cops to help stop.

I post a link to that article reluctantly, because it symbolically endorses racial bias by contrasting "white" and "Black". I disapprove of this just as I would disapprove of as contrasting "White" and "black". Ultimately I decided to post a link to this article despite that because it makes an important point that I didn't have another article to use for. (Don't suggest searching; that takes me a lot of time.)

Cuba also has secret police that repress, even kill dissidents; for instance, they killed Oswaldo Payá. Cuba disrespects some vital human rights. But that is a separate issue from its policing of nonpolitical crime.