Proposing to pay farmers to grow trees instead of cows, as a way of ending global heating.

As stated, that proposal is too simplistic. There are many places on Earth where the native ecosystems did not include many trees, including the Great Plains in the US.

Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr has gone off the deep end in regard to preserving democracy in the US.

He has clamped onto a borderline issue of government influence on antisocial media platforms, and says that is more dangerous than the insurrectionist's stated plans to impose fascism if he can.

Ekrem Imamoğlu, a secularist, seems to have a chance to be the next president of Turkey, if only Erdoğan doesn't sabotage the election.

The British government promised to compensate the harm it did to thousands of immigrants who moved lawfully to Britain from colonies decades ago, when young, and had no proof of what happened. That was five years ago. But it is so slow to carry out that promise that it seems to be "waiting for them to die" so it won't have to compensate them for real.

The UK government seems to become incompetent when facing any sort of task that involves correcting mistakes or dealing with unusual situations.

Sometimes it is due to privatization of dealing with citizens — something that is generally harmful to the citizens how need whatever service.

I suspect that putting computers in charge is a cause, and cuts in spending on functionaries is another.

Developing mechanical and thermal batteries to store store energy as compression or heat.