George Monbiot: rich countries should forgive poor countries' unpayable debt, so those can spend money on conservation and education rather than debt service.

Perhaps this should be conditional the beneficiary countries' cutting down the extraction of fossil fuels.

Rebecca Solnit: *A planet in peril and so many Big Brothers: George Orwell would have been shocked.*

I hope some one can inform Solnit that some of us do not "opt in" to this surveillance and manipulation.

Australia's new government has recognized that its carbon offset scheme is bogus.

That is true elsewhere, too. I hope other governments will recognize it.

In Poland, as in the US, right-wing Christians attacked abortion rights by taking over the country's supreme court.

A summary of key points in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.

*"Hutchinson's testimony of the deeply detailed plans of January 6 and the inaction of those in the White House in response to the violence show just how close we came to a coup."*