I wonder if it would be possible to take a biopsy (tissue sample) of the tumor, inject the vaccine and let the immune system of the body kill off the tumor rather than a fully fledged operation and/or chemotherapy?

Just a heads up that the Dutch live in the Netherlands, sometimes referred to as Holland. The people living in Denmark are called Danish. And your links are about Sri Lankans and Dutch farmers, not Danish.

Or in backwater countries like Denmark :-/

I think you are confusing copyright and patents. Patents last for a specified time after they were issued, whereas copyright lasts for a period of time after the death of the copyright owner(s).

Lots of places don't care because the largest markets don't care either. If the largest markets were to require that parts are produced in a environmentally friendlier fashion, production facilities around the world would be upgraded. This is not unheard of, e.g. with production of organic foods. Yes, there will be successful cheaters, but such is life.

There is also another potential saving: If you work from home, you don't have to live within commuting distance of your workplace. In some places, just moving 50 km further away can give you a (possibly better) home at significantly lower cost.

On the other hand, depending on your deal with your employer, you may have to pay to outfit your office, electricity, coffee, lunch, internet and whatever else you need. And you need space in your home for your work from home office.

The return of the paper and the pencil!

No, no they just recognize that virus has a right to life as well ...

My Brother printer disabled the cartridge because they claimed that I had printed so many pages that subsequent pages would not look good. It took at least an hour of searching the internet, before I found the secret combination to disable that anti-user crap and continued printing. There was NOTHING in the manual or on Brothers page for the printer.

After entering the secret combination, I managed to print at least a hundred pages before I could see a drop in quality. I don't know if they have changed their ways later, but they are definitely in bad standing from my point of view!

You're missing the point of PPHs question: How do patents like that get approved as patents in the first place? The patent office should see the patent application as a blatant attempt to increase the length of the patent protection and disapprove the patent application. Instead the patent office approved it, giving the company legal standing to press charges.

People in poor countries generally get more children as the children will provide for the parents when the parents are too old to provide for themselves. And due to a cultural memory of roughly half the children not making it to adulthood, it is smart to have more children, so you are sure that there will be a few of them around to provide for you in old age.

We also have a biodiversity crisis, so reforestation (provided it is a wild forest) is also on the top of my mind to capture excess CO2. The problem with rotting organic matter cannot be as large as you fear. If it was, we would have had a runaway greenhouse effect every year before the invention of agriculture.

Scotland has a huge coast line and a lot of water around it. Dogger Bank alone has an estimated capacity of 110 GW and Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are planning to build a 150 GW offshore wind capacity by 2050.

Large scale storage for renewable energy does not have to be based on lithium ion batteries.

Given that electric vehicles are becoming more and more common, parking lots are likely to include charging stations. If parking lots can generate some or most of the electricity needed from solar panels, but can charge a price comparable with that of the grid plus a commission for the parking lot, the value proposition changes significantly.