Tories plan to allow lower courts to overturn laws that implement EU requirements.

The Tories plan to make it easy to undermine workers' rights, environmental protection, public health, privacy, and all other rights protected by the EU.

The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution says that toxic pollution causes 15% of premature deaths. But this must be an undercount, because the effects of some widespread pollutants are impossible to count due to the lack of varied environments to compare.

I don't think the single-country totals are interesting, because the size of the population is one factor in those totals. Single-country percentages would be interesting to compare.

*Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study.*

*After the autumn clampdown, fighting for the right to protest has become a vital part of the collective fight for survival.*

The thugs aim to cause so much suffering that protesters will give up, and take any fragment of an excuse to break the law, even steal mobility aids from handicapped people. But Extinction Rebellion will not give up, because they are fighting for everyone's children's lives.

As capitalism spreads into aspects of life which were not marketized before, it commoditizes those aspects even for people who don't want that. The worst case is in politics.

Even friendship and dating become commoditized.

When we talk of "globalization", that usually stands for globalization of the power of business. Including people in more countries in global markets does not inherently have to imply a big transfer of income from workers to business owners, but when businesses rule the roost, their owners insist on that transfer.

Cobalt, used in electric car batteries, is toxic. *In Zambia, studies of soil and mango fruit grown near copper and cobalt mines have revealed metals above the safety limit.*