*Arsenic found in London air raises fears over use of waste wood as fuel.*

Activist investors have sued the directors of Shell for failing to redirect the company's operations vigorously away from fossil fuels.

It seems to me that this lawsuit is based on speculation presented as objective truth.

If the lawsuit accused Shell of putting human civilization in danger, that would be easy to demonstrate. If it accused Shell of intentionally covering this up, then provided Shell (like Exxon) privately did research decades ago which demonstrated this, that too would be easy to demonstrate.

If civilization does collapse, the investors will lose everything. But I think that is too far away to prove as a certainty by the standards of courts.

Around 2/3 of white "evangelical" Christians support "Christian nationalism," which means that they wish to impose Christianity on the US and make non-Christians second-class citizens.

Over 1/4 of them state that they want an authoritarian leader "who is willing to break some rules if that’s what it takes to set things right."

I imagine the Christian Republic of America as resembling the Islamic Republic of Iran, with similar repression directed against people who reject imposed rules for clothing, similar repression and torture of protesters, and similar execution of protesters.

The International Energy Agency says that renewable generation will become the biggest source of electricity by 2025.

This will indicate important progress, but it is not actually a crucial target. Our survival target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a point lower than the rate at which they disappear from the atmosphere. That entails eliminating most fossil fuels from land, sea and air transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, agriculture, and construction.

The half-measures, such as nuclear power, carbon capture and storage, and "blue hydrogen" are not useful for this; they are at best distractions.

Once we reach the survival target, it would be wise to go further and reduce the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Planting trees could do that, provided the trees survive and thrive. However, given plentiful renewable electricity, using that to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into durable goods could be worth doing.

Companies that make milk substitutes for babies have perfected the use of advertising to spread the idea that there is something wrong with breast milk.