*[US military] contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on 'classified' projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget.*

Aside from the harm of a pit for public money spent in unaccountable ways, there is also the danger that these systems will be used to repress people, either in the US or elsewhere. This includes mass surveillance, which (as China shows, especially in Xinjiang) is the preparatory step for repression.

The new head of the IMF says that global heating is the main threat to the world's human economy, more dangerous than an economic crash.

Global heating disaster will eventually cause an economic crash, but by that time there will be no way to stop the slide down the cliff.

Chile is a wealthy country, but the rich don't let the rest get much of that wealth.

An Australian whose family home was destroyed by a wildfire fueled by Australian coal mines brought the remains to Parliament, demanding climate defense action.

*Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan.*