Assorted ideas for redesigning cities to cope with the increasing intensity of rain that global heating is now causing.

A plutocratist party in the German government demanded a change in the nearly-agreed EU directive to ban sale of new cars made to use fossil fuels after 2035.

Supposedly this is to encourage the future sale of new cars intended to run on hypothetical future "synthetic fuels" made from CO2 extracted from the air. However, the proposed directive was already written to permit that the continued sale of such those cars after 2035, provided they could not run on fossil fuels. It is clear that the plutocratist demand aims to create an excuse in 2035 to continue selling new cars that can run on fossil fuels. The excuse will be to claim that these new cars are intended to run on synthetic fuels.

Why is that important to them? Based on the planet roasters' record of repeated dishonesty, I speculate their plan is to claim that cars are "intended" to run on the synthetic fuels, knowing that owners will actually buy the fossil fuels instead, and that this will create increased demand for fossil fuels, such that it is impossible to discontinue them as planned.

It looks like the planet roasters won: the EU made the demanded seemingly-small change in the directive.

The urbanized world is facing a gradually developing crisis of shortage of fresh water.

*Urban water demand is expected to increase by 80% by 2050.*

(satire) *Catholic High School Newsletter Has Updates On Which Alumni Are In Hell Now.*

Some city departments to send unarmed people with intervention training to respond to psychological crises are effective, while others are not.