Pressuring the wealthiest countries (in the OECD) to stop funding international fossil fuel development.

*Recycling [of plastics] can release huge quantities of microplastics.* After installing an additional filter, the plant released 6% of the plastic input as microplastics. (Before that, it was more.) Even the air around the plant is full of microplastics.

Washing machines also release plenty of microplastics. The only way to arrange for most washing machines to have filters is for the government to do it to people's washing machines, and those in laundries. The amount of trouble involved in getting and installing a filter will dissuade most people who are busy.

One of the menaces of plastic waste is that it blocks drainage systems in countries too poor to clean them out.

*Investigation finds [Chevron's] efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact.*

*The debt ceiling deal will fast-track the Mountain Valley pipeline, and limit the scope of environmental reviews for future developments.* That will kill people; the uncertainty is about the order of magnitude of how many people.

*A lawyer used ChatGPT for legal filing. The chatbot cited nonexistent cases it just made up.*

This goes to show how foolish it is to think of ChatGPT as "intelligence". It is not capable of having knowledge, understanding, desires, or plans. It has no idea of truth or falsehood.