(satire) *SNAP Recipients Now Required To Prove Need [i.e., hunger] By Eating All Their Groceries On Spot.*

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Tennessee has made it a crime to camp on the street in a tent.

Is it permissible to camp without a tent and get wet and sick?

*Inside Somalia’s vicious cycle of deforestation for charcoal.*

Reportedly, al-Shabaab is trying to prohibit cutting trees with leaves, and having some success enforcing the prohibition by burning trucks caught carrying such wood. A democratic government might be able to enforce the rule with less brutality, but this may be better than nothing in the long term.

In a world of growing scarcity, the long-term non-brutal solution is (1) decarbonization and (2) much fewer births.

ISTR that Haiti has suffered for decades from a similar problem; nearly all the forests have been cut down.

*Global heating has caused ‘shocking’ changes in forests across the Americas, studies find.*

Trees are advancing to the north, and dying or burning in the south.

*Melting of the world's biggest ice sheet [the East Antarctic] would cause catastrophic sea level rise, but can be avoided with fast climate action.*

To whip inflation in the US, we need to stop big businesses from raising prices from greed.

The way I prefer is to break up the many large companies that have too big a share of whatever market. Rather than launch a lawsuit against each excessively large company, I recommend a tax system that raises the tax rate sharply as a company gets bigger, or as it gets a bigger share of each market.