Due to global heating, *northern permafrost region [now] emits more greenhouse gases than it captures.*

This is an example of a positive feedback. Positive feedbacks, which we can't entirely predict, are what can destroy civilization.

Yanis Varoufakis presents the text of the speech over which Germany banned his presence and even from presenting videos of his views. This puts political freedom in Germany under grave threat.

In the text he affirms his solidarity with all victims of atrocities, including Jews and Palestinians. I don't agree with every detail of his views, but rather than quibble, I say his heart is in the right place.

Zoom demands that users make accounts and identify themselves before they can participate in a call. This puts Zoom in position to block any conference in Germany in which Varoufakis tried to participate.

That is one of many reasons why Zoom is an injustice and we should denounce and reject it.

Salafi Arabia is running a marketing campaign to pretend it is something other than repressive and sexist.

Some hospitals in abortion-forbidding states turn women away from emergency rooms so as not to get stuck choosing between the crime of saving them or the liability of letting them die.

The US government s trying to enforce the law that emergency rooms can't just send a patient away. Now the case has come to the Supreme Court, where right-wing fanatics may decide to kill women in the name of the sacredness of fetuses.

The new president of the World Bank wants funds to invest in decrbonization of poor countries.

This lending program would be a good idea, but the highest priorities for investments in decarbonization are:

1. Getting wealthier countries to invest in their own decarbonization, They produce a lot more greenhouse gas than poor counries do. They do invest in renewable electric generation, but their fossil fuel extraction is still increasing year by year, and greenhouse emissions likewise.
2. Putting an end to funding for "aid" that takes the form of "investment" and "development" of fossil fuel extraction, transport and combustion in poor countries.

Shifting those funds to decarbonization aid would be the best way to start that.

But if we don't require these actions. decarbonization won't get off the ground.