The US total fertility rate is dropping.

This is a good thing, because having more than a few children is a luxury that our species cannot afford — not on this planet the way it is now.

The expense of having and raising children in the US is partially the result of that situation, and partly imposed by the cruelty of plutocracy. I campaign to end that cruelty, but fewer births is at least a silver lining to that cloud.

If we could get the whole world's fertility rate down well under 1.7, we would be headed towards a sustainable population.

There are over 2000 dams in the US that are in poor condition and their failure would kill people.

This is the result of decades of skimping on maintenance to pay for increased military spending and handouts to the rich.

The president of Guatemala says that the US is deporting people there who have Covid-19, and this has overwhelmed Guatemala's medical system.

Some of them are not even Guatemalan. The US is deporting Hondurans and Salvadoreans to Guatemala.

The president of Guatemala is right-wing, but even so he could protect his country by refusing to permit deportation to Guatemala as long as the pandemic continues.

If Guatemala makes an alliance with Cuba, it could get real medical help.

The Covid-19 epidemic is exposing the way many important market systems are unstable and liable to crash.

If we can overcome the disaster capitalists that profit from such crashes, we could redesign them to serve or real needs.

US citizens: call on stronger workplace health and safety protections for US frontline food workers.