Economics classes in the UK continue teaching right-wing myths that the 2008 crash demonstrated were false.

Of course, this was not the first sign that they were false.

I think that an investigation of why these falsehoods are taught would come across the influence of plutocrats' money.

Typhoon Haiyan killed over 10,000 people, perhaps much more.

Many of the dead were drowned because the storm drove a 6-meter wall of water onto the land.

The rise in sea level, for which global heating is directly responsible, surely increased the height of the storm surge and therefore increased the death toll. Global heating also played a role in making the storm so strong, which also increased it.

One study forecast that global heating would kill a hundred million people by 2030.

The business-ridden UK government invited a gas company employee to write its energy policy.

Note how the ministry claims that conflicts of interest are a minor matter compared with the "knowledge" that business employees have. I'm sure they know plenty about what policies will serve their employers, but knowledge can't compensate for bad goals.

Australia keeps setting high temperature records, but the government, totally subservient to coal interests, says it will reduce plans for CO₂ emissions cuts.

These long-term targets sound impressive until they are cancelled without having been achieved. The way to get real results is with a carbon tax.

Banning the practice of discarding "by-catch" (fish that the fishermen did not aim to catch) is not enough to enable overfished stocks to recover.

The only way to protect fish stocks is to defeat the political power of the fishermen, who are generally short-termist.