Climate talks must consider reforming agriculture so as to end its large greenhouse emissions.

Playwright Caryl Churchill was given a lifetime achievement award. Then the award committee took the award back because Churchill had expressed support for Palestinians' Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Artists are entitled to have political views, like anyone else, but judgments about their merit as artists should not judge them by their views on political issues.

Some people are convinced that prosperity requires a growing population — even in the US.

We can't afford a growing populartion in the US. It uses too much resources already. I'd say that survival, in the long term, requires a gradually shrinking US population. People in the US consume so much resources that a decrease in the US population is crucial for the world as a whole.

A "young population" is a harbinger of disaster.

We can enable ordinary Americans to prosper and cut down the resources we use, if only we could put an end to plutocracy that demands ever more billions for each billionaire.

We have plutocracy because the billionaire plutocrats have purchased laws (and judges) that assure them the power to buy more laws and court decisions.

*If you're outraged by XR and Just Stop Oil, imagine how disruptive climate breakdown will be.*

If you are concerned about the works of art that Just Stop Oil protesters threw liquids at, keep in mind that if civilization ceases to have spare funds to maintain museums, some of them will be exposed to the elements and decaying. The rest will have been taken by billionaires who expect to save a fraction of you, at the cost of becoming their slaves.

*Seventy five countries led by the US, UK and France are expected to sign a declaration in Dublin on Friday to refrain from urban bombing.*

Russia, China, Israel, and India said they would not sign. Ukraine also refuses to sign, but maybe it would sign if Russia does.