"Every stage of the plastic life-cycle releases harmful carbon emissions into the atmosphere, contributing to global heating."

This is in addition to poisoning sea animals and land animals.

It's a myth that environmental regulations stifle economic productivity. Harmful chemicals cost the US $340bn a year.

The benefits of using those chemicals are concentrated on businesses, while the damage is dispersed among lots of families, mostly not rich. Politically, under the plutocratist system, the former counts more than the latter.

The refugee who tried to kill himself by fire in Manus Island will face charges leading to life imprisonment in a smaller prison.

Those who imprisoned him in Papua New Guinea and those who denied him medical treatment should be considered responsible for his "crime", which is not as grave as theirs.

The head of a department of 23 July 2019 (Insulin_Murder)

Extension of patenting, together with general encouragement of greed, has made insulin so expensive in the US that American diabetics have to skimp on everything else &mdash and even then they may die from not being able to buy insulin.

It amounts to murder.

The head of a department of Unesco has decided not to hold conferences in the UK any more. It is too hard for even sponsored participants to get a visa to attend.