The global supply of sand suitable for making concrete is insufficient, so gangs steal sand from beaches, and in some places kill anyone who tries to report or stop them.

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain is unionizing the sweatshop service economy and achieving victories.

Reportedly the alternatives to palm oil would require a lot more land to produce the same amount of oil. The problem with palm oil is that people cut down lots of forests to grow it. Certification programs to stop such deforestation are ineffective.

I wonder if the other crops are more suitable than palm oil for land that is not forest and hasn't been forest.

Some poor African countries accept refugees and don't repress them.

Perhaps wealthier countries could do the same, if they weren't ruled by stingy rich people that want to starve the poor.

In a prison for child refugees, a guard threatened prisoners they would be denied asylum if they talked to the press.