*World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds.*

Fossil fuel subsidies make up 1/3 of that total. Other large parts come from deforestation, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take ages to refill, and pollution.

Australian planet-roaster business interests have published an exaggerated estimate of what it would cost to stop opening new extraction facilities for coal and gas.

*Students' [legal] complaint argues it's illegal for US universities to invest in fossil fuels.*

The UK plans to teach people not to worry about Covid by making them pay to get reliably tested.

Bernie Sanders describes the dangerous power that big Wall Street investment companies have over all areas of business. Also the way "private equity" investors buy up businesses people depend on, and destroy them.

We need to prohibit those operations — I believe they were illegal until the 1980s and that it was Reagan that authorized them — but today's plutocratist legislators won't help.