Children growing up in poverty in the US find it hard to afford to see a dentist. Occasionally one dies from this. Lesser disease problems are widespread.

US citizens: Protect Bristol Bay salmon from new giant mine.

Oslo is eliminating street parking in the center city with the idea of getting rid of most car traffic, to reduce CO2 emissions.

If this is accompanied by good enough public transportation, all usable anonymously with cash, I'd be in favor.

Factories that make rayon in countries without effective laws poison the air and water because they don't bother to prevent this.

One possible partial solution is through import regulation. If all importers of rayon are required to tell customs when they make an order, and then every shipment is held until a certain period of time has elapsed from the order, there would be no more pressure to speed delivery. If a tax is imposed on every order of rayon, and it goes to antipollution measures in factories that make rayon, the pressure to cut costs would no longer boost pollution.

In order to be able to do this, and a thousand other things, we need to replace plutocratic government with democratic government. We need officials who are prepared to tell businesses, when they say they "need" to be cruel in order to compete with other cruel businesses, "For all we care, you can go broke. You're the 'risk-takers', right? When you take a risk of making people sick, you henceforth take a risk of going broke."

The Tories' "assessments", to determine whether disabled people are really disabled, are idiotic and ignorant.

The idiocy makes sense when you understand it as one of many means intended to advance the Tories' unstated goal: every penny less for the disabled, the poor, the homeless, and the hungry is one penny more for the elite.