*China cuts 'freedom of thought' from top university charters.*

*Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s.*

The forecast global sea level rise by 2100 is now 67 cm. However, I expect considerably more, because the models are based on well-established phenomena and tend to underestimate.

China is developing a surveillance network that tracks people through phones, face recognition, and other things, and gives every level of the state total repressive control over everything people do.

Similar repression is coming to your country too, if you don't stop it.

The article doesn't mention tracking people through payments, but the state is working to make that inescapable too.

Some Chinese people object to this, but the crushing power of the state gives them little chance to oppose it.

To prevent that requires preventing anyone from collecting data about people's daily activities — where you go, what you do there, and who you talk with. Laws about how to use the data will prove in effective because the state will make exceptions for itself. (The recently proposed US privacy bill does not cover government activities at all.) The government will say this is to catch criminals or stop terrorism — and it probably will do those things also, but so what?

The US water crisis: toxic pollution today in many cities, and water shortage coming in a few decades.

Both problems are due to bad government policies set up by the plutocratic system that has substituted itself for democracy.

*Is a carbon-neutral world possible by 2050? Yes… but the longer it takes, the more expensive it will become.*

I think adopting 2050 as the target is going too slow.