Australia has a new way to set up an unstoppable doomsday machine: by starting new coal mines, and committing to pay the whole of the mines' carbon taxes in the future.

At a time when we need to reduce use of fossil fuels, to aim to make fossil fuels cheaper to use is a fundamental mistake. This is an example of setting short-term convenience over long-term survival.

The purpose of a carbon tax is to make fossil fuel more expensive to use, without making it more profitable to extract. If it had started 10 years ago, with a large enough tax rate, we might have been well on the way to decarbonizing by now. However, with time being short, it may be too slow.

We Need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are making millions from the bully's cruelty to immigrants, including the prisons.

The Isle of Man created marine reserves, with the cooperation of fishermen, which protect many marine species including for fishing.

Island volunteers also clean all the visible pieces of plastic off its beaches, but that is treating just one symptom of a global problem.

How California Public Employees Fund Anti-Rent Control Fight Unwittingly (via their pensions invested in Blackstone).

Since a trial in Turkey would inspire no confidence, prosecuting the murderers of Khashoggi needs to be done in international court.