Antarctica's climate is teetering on the edge of disaster: *Study after study showed the breakdown of climate systems taking place [decades] earlier than foreseen, with potentially catastrophic results.*

It's not just penguins that will be wiped out. It's the geography, too.

*We are witnessing a pandemic of inhumanity: to halt the spread, we must cling to the law.* The laws of war and war crimes, that refers to.

Inheritance taxes are paid by the rich. or by those who are about to become rich. This makes them one of the fairest kinds of tax, in a society that has let the rich grab too much.

Strange that non-rich voters think they will someday have to pay it.

A new form of romanticism is leading young people to reject rationalism and science, as well as technology.

The specific forms of technology that the article mentions are oppressive forms: online dis-services and nonfree software. There are valid rational reasons to reject them -- but if you ignore those reasons, and give way to a thoughtless reject, that will not lead you to make good choices.

The person who told us to "listen to the scientists" was Greta Thunberg, and she was talking specifically about climate scientists and their modeling of coming global climate catastrophe. We know full well who wants us not to listen to them, and spends millions of dollars to distract us from them.

Science is not perfect, and individual scientific conclusions can be wrong, But science, when practiced properly and honestly, is our best tool for collectively finding and correcting each other's errors and our own. To reject scientific thinking is not only foolish, it is asking for trouble, even gigadeaths. It can amount to genocide against the human race, and millions of other species too.

*New York college students who support Palestine fear post-9/11-style retaliation.* Except that now they also scan through social media posts.

The difference between condemning HAMAS's actions and hating Palestinians generally is conceptually clear enough, but if you forget to pay attention to it you can easily drift across the line without noticing. Likewise with the difference between Israel's actions and hating Jews generally.

Even if you carefully keep these differences in mind, and carefully represent them in your words, your enemies can unconsciously misunderstand and accuse you of hatred. They can even dishonestly and intentionally make false accusations, blaming you for what your associates have done, or for things that didn't happen at all.