Celebrated author Bernardine Evaristo denounces the concept of "cultural appropriation" as something wrong.

DeVos wants to put shift debt into a separate government-controlled corporation so that the next president won't be able to cancel it.

It is a common Republican trick to reduce the authority of future officials so they can't correct what the Republicans do today. They have done this in some states when a Democratic governor had been elected.

Texas is planning so much additional fossil fuel facilities that they will guarantee world disaster.

If you are young, these projects are likely to kill you in a few decades. If you want to act accordingly, what actions would that be?

A study of a few people's patterns of reading news via smartphones revealed that manipulative dis-services choose which exaggerations and distortions to show them.

The authors of this article encourage that helpless attitude by using the word "consume" to describe what people do with news items (and with other publications). If you don't want people to be foolish, don't presuppose that there is no other way to be.

Comparing population growth to growth of traffic explains the fallacy in the "self-soothing" conceit that your children will make the world better (unlike most other people's children).

"'Thinking your child will be part of the solution, not the problem, is hubris.' We are the collapse. Our children are the collapse.

That article is brilliant, but the author's reasoning errs at the end when she asserts that her only choice, aside from reproducing and regretting the harm that will do, is to be unwilling to "believe the Earth can survive us." The error is exaggeration of little hope into zero hope.

"The Earth" here is a synecdoque and refers to Earth life as it exists today. The crucial point is that its chances of survival are not zero, and they depend on what we do today.

In particular, its chances are greater if we don't add to the population load it will have to cope with. Each additional birth makes it more difficult for the Earth to survive us, and that is a reason not to have children.

But if you think survival is impossible, you might conclude you may as well have a child and enjoy knowing per for 20 or 30 years till the climate disaster gets you both.