factories

India has seen a lot of development in the past few decades, but poor industrial regulation means that factories do not follow pollution-control measures.

A few weeks ago, after Iran attacked Israel with missiles, Trump said Israel should “hit the nuclear“—i.e., it should respond by destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities. President Biden persuaded Netanyahu to launch a “proportional” retaliation, which he did, destroying Iranian missile factories, aircraft, and air-defense sites.

By showing how much energy households are using, and how much it is costing, meters are intended to encourage people to use more energy at times of day when it is cheaper - because there is a surplus while most are in bed and factories are closed.

The walkout by around 30,000 Boeing workers started on 13 September, leading to a dramatic slowdown at the plane maker's factories and deepening a crisis at the company.

“That is the same process that was developed 175 years ago in the northwest of England, in the Lancashire cotton mills and the Yorkshire cotton mills, and we exported it,” he points out, first to the US and then onto the factories in Asia.