We're not thinking we've escaped it but glad so far

How Bali Escapted being a virus hotspot - Bloomberg News

New Zealand has a Good Leader

The bubble that 'beat' coronavirus

We Need Percentages in order to compare

Here is a message I sent to Al Jazzeera today. Greetings good people. News media worldwide uses the metric of how many cases each country has in order to compare them. What would be more helpful would be percentages. That the US has the most positives reported and most deaths and surely most excess deaths (to me a more signigicant number) has some meaning of course, but if it were also stated in terms of percentage of the population, it would communicate more.

I live in Bali and have appreciated your articles on Bali, Indonesia, and SE Asia in General. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

A Heyday for Big Time Environmental Vandalism

The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
from the NY Times - thanks Gregory

A Tale of Two Olivers

I know two Olivers here in Bali. They're the two veteran expat recyclers. I met one for lunch and he invited me to see their setup at the big landfill. He told me where to wait for him but I wasn't clear where. So I went to the main office for assistance. Someone overheard me and said, "Oh - are you looking for Oliver. I said yes. "He's supposed to show up over there at that shed." OK. Thanks. So I went over there. Pretty soon a guy rode up on a motor scooter. He asked me if I was waiting for Oliver and he said him too so we sat there. Oliver finally showed up like a half hour later than we were supposed to meet. He asked where I'd been and I said I couldn't figure out where to meet him so I went to the office and a guy said you'd be coming right here. "He did?" "He meant me," said the other guy. So that's how I learned his name was Oliver too - almost. It's Olivier. He's French.

Happy Mothers' and Mother's Day!

Read about Anna Jarvis, the woman who created Mother's Day but not Mothers' Day

Mothers' Day was the idea of Anna's mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis. Anna never became a mother and hated and died penniless trying to destroy what she'd created as it became commercial overnight.

Chill out babe.

Critiques of Planet of the Humans

Fact Check and details minute by minute by the people who made it

Wikipedia page for the film

Why “Planet of the Humans” is crap - Here's a harsh one that agrees on a good deal (like that the big biomass biz is bad bad) but says there's so much behind the curve and out of date and so many cheap shots that it ruins what could have been a good film.

3 times Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans gets the facts wrong (and 3 times it gets them right)

Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews

Scathing Newsweek opinon article: MICHAEL MOORE'S NEW FILM TURNS HEROES INTO VILLAINS AND VILLAINS INTO HEROES

Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial - Yale Climate Connections

Inside Climate News - Six things the film gets wrong

We Are Losing The Battle To Stop Climate Change - Real Clear Politics

And there's a lot more including You Tube critiques.