This and that for your Sunday reading.

– Paul Krugman writes that the U.S. is now the world’s foremost petrostate – with disastrous results for it and for the world at large (with the exception of the group of countries including China who are leading the charge toward electrification). 

– Mary Stuart and Geoff Dembicki map out Gwyn Morgan’s multimillion-dollar fossil fuel propaganda empire. And Amanda Bryant points out how the UCP has made a mockery of yet another supposed agreement with the Carney government by taking federal forbearance as an invitation toward unregulation methane pollution. 

– Niigaan Sinclair writes that spying on Indigenous peoples (invariably in the service of resource extraction) represents an intolerable threat to everybody’s civil rights. 

– Katie Jagielnicka examines the misogyny behind the alt-right’s relentless attacks on intellectualism. And Hanna Horvath writes that ubiquitous gambling is a demonstrable source of both intimate partner violence and social breakdown.  

– Finally, Victor Tangarmann examines the dangers of cognitive surrender in the face of authoritative-sounding-but-wrong directions from artificial intelligence.