Everyone: call on airlines to desist from surge pricing.

As average [wildlife] population falls reach 95% in some regions, experts call for urgent action but insist "nature can recover."*

A right-wing conspiracy theory claims that Hurricane Helene was brought about by a business plot, intended to eliminate obstacles for a lithium mine.

The inventors of that myth are, it seems, trying to demonize building batteries to facilitate decarbonization.

It is surprising how close the myth is to the truth. There was no conspiracy to cause Hurricane Helene -- nobody would know how to do that intentionally. But there is a conspiracy of fossil fuel interests to maximize global heating, and that did cause this hurricane to be so powerful and damaging. The existence of this conspiracy is well documented.

The difference between the truth and the myth is just enough for the latter to put the blame on the wrong side.

*Study confirms Hurricane Helene fueled by Big Oil’s emissions: Greenpeace calls for climate polluters to pay.*

A British official wants to abolish privacy in the UK just to make each motorist pay tax exactly in proportion to per driving.

The short-term solution for the shortfall in tax funds is simple: increase the tax rate on gasoline and diesel fuel. until the total revenue reaches the former level. That will speed the elimination of all fossil fuel vehicles.

In a few years, when those are mostly gone, that method will no longer solve the problem. At that point Britain could tax all electricity usage to get the money to pay for road maintenance. Or tax the rich in one way or another.

Armitt seems to treat as sacred the goal of measuring everyone's use of roads so as to compute precisely how much value each person gets from them. Such exactitude is an improvement in theory, but it is not crucial. We should not accept Orwellian surveillance just to make the tax perfectly fit the usage.

*MI5 chief: UK facing growing threat from Islamic State, Russia and Iran.*

The threat includes assassinations and terror attacks.