The Netherlands has to reduce the amount of beef farming because the farms' emissions of nitrogen are damaging ecosystems around them.

It's true we need farms in order to have food. But we don't need as much beef as we produce now — and for other reasons we must produce less.

French thugs shot and killed a driver of Arab origin for no sensible reason, then fabricated a fake reason. This has sparked protests all around France.

Global heating will make summer miserable for much of the US.

In the south, a heat dome. In the northeast, smoke from Canadian forest fires.

Until we reduce greenhouse gas levels, it will get worse and worse and worse.

The Tory prime minister has deprioritized the previous commitments for avoiding global heating disaster.

China has built as much renewable generating capacity as the rest of the world, and it is rapidly building more.

This is not a race between countries to see which one will "win." It is part of a race against time for the survival of civilization and the natural world. Renewable generation is one of the things we need for that goal.

The whole world is in this together, and China shows what other countries do, if only we overcome the efforts of the fossil fuel corruption intended to stop us.

One bad aspect of China's progress is that it is still increasing its coal combustion. Until fossil fuel use decreases, we are still getting further away from survival.

In general, the one good thing about the Chinese system of government is that the state is more powerful than businesses, and will not permit them to get powerful enough to obstruct the state's plans.

The very bad thing about the Chinese system of government is that the state is far more powerful than the people, and will not permit the people to obstruct the state's plans. But it does consider the aggregate practical desires of people, despite its contempt for their views and freedom.

To oversimplify, a just state cows the powerful few while respecting the people. China does the first but rejects the second. The US does an insufficient job of each.