(satire) New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that the subway is just for Amazon employees now.

Spain has proposed a plan for moving to 100% renewable energy by 2050, including transportation. Sale of new fossil-fueled cars would be prohibited after 2040.

The prohibition on subsidies for fossil fuels, exploration permits, and fracking should not wait for 2040. It should start right away.

The energy sector is not the only source of greenhouse gases. Spain needs to address agriculture, especially beef. And there is deforestation, which is mainly occurring in countries other than Spain, but is a major source at the world level.

San Diego is planning 40,000 new homes in areas that are likely to burn.

(satire) The bully is leading an expedition into a rainforest to find an uncontacted ethnic group to vilify.

Airport "security" officials confiscated a child's toy stuffed snake.

This is an example of the suffering caused by "zero tolerance", which means intentionally being unreasonable even (or especially?) when that hurts people.

I wonder if they would confiscate a toy elephant because it is a "replica" of an animal that wouldn't fit in the cabin.

The mother lied to the child to calm him down at that moment. I expect that the lie became evident on arrival, and that could make the child justifiably distrustful of her from now on.

Even when people carry real weapons that shouldn't be allowed in the cabin, to confiscate them is gratuitously harsh. They should be carried in a bin in the hold, and returned to passengers at their destination.