Spoiled

Ben Van Beurden, chief executive of Shell, said that the company’s performance “has been helped by the macro and the macro has been impacted by the war in Ukraine”. He added that this situation means “we do have a better company, we do have a better performance, and yes indeed our shareholders will benefit from that as well”.

Murray Auchincloss, BP’s chief financial officer, said in February: “Certainly, it’s possible that we’re getting more cash than we know what to do with.”

Largest oil and gas producers made close to $100bn in first quarter of 2022 | Oil | The Guardian

Just a thought: how about mopping up the Niger Delta?

Lone Star

Thousands of Americans diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, an allergic reaction to mammal meats like pork, beef and lamb, which growing evidence shows can be triggered by a tick bite.

“It feels like you’re on fire, and then it feels like you slept with a cactus,” she said. “The itching is unbearable.” …

At one point, an infectious disease doctor told her she could not have alpha-gal syndrome, because there were no lone star ticks in the state of Delaware.

“I was livid”…

But that was just another unattributed symptom.

Does this sound like a Western-style vegan revenge fantasy spoof? Or is nature responding to forest clearance for soya-fed livestock with ingenious irony?