By Wikipedias count there are presently 51 on-going national emergencies in USA, 19 of them have been declared by Trump.

The oldest still active one was made by Carter in 1979, it’s a sanction on Iran.

Any US company that wants to could setup mining operations in greenland today, Denmark/Greenland would happily welcome the development.

The reason the USA wants to seize greenland is because it foresees a future where it is no longer allied with Europe, so in order to secure the resources and military access in the long term they are annexing it now since Europe is entirely incapable of stopping them at present, both politically and militarily.

People are gonna start falling out of windows in the US real soon.

Why have all these “x-point plan” been so horrifically poorly written?

14 A is a sentence fragment that has no meaning.

5 B, Does not restrict Ukraine from continuing the war to reclaim it’s territory since the occupied areas are not “Russian territory” and it simultaneously states that if Russia militarily opposes that recapture it would trigger the security guarantees and enter NATO into war with Russia.

18, “as soon as possible” is such a cliche contract trap, just write 6 months and there wont be any arguing.

It’s like a child wrote it, but this is being presented in a serious international forum. The original one from Russia and Europe’s modification thereof were also just absolute garbage.

You’re gonna need to come up with a better example, when covid hit a and fewer people where buying plane tickets there where a lot fewer planes in the air. Companies usually want to be as cost effective as possible, meaning they will do the least amount of work needed to still get their customers money.

One big problem that regulation can tackle is that corporations seek to externalize as much of their costs as they can, which means the corporation won’t have to pay for the externalized cost, so they can sell their good/service cheaper, so consumption of the product increases, leading to an outsized environmental/societal cost compared to the cost of the product.