Sunday, 14 August, 2022 — Legalienate
“Are present ecological stresses so strong that if not relieved they will sufficiently degrade the ecosystem to make the earth uninhabitable by humans? Obviously no serious discussion of the environmental crisis can get very far without confronting this question.”
Barry Commoner in The Closing Circle: 1971
More than fifty years after Commoner wrote those words, the environmental problem is almost infinitely worse and what is presently called climate change once thought to affect future generations is engulfing the entire planet right now. While warnings from a scientific community not on corporate payrolls grow more desperate the global political power of capitalism, the primary cause of nature’s breakdown under stress, especially at its fading but still essential center in the USA, is making things worse not just by the hour or minute but every second.
Chinese, Russian warships in joint drills, Sea of Japan, Oct 2021
Walden Bello being taken in by Philippines authorities on August 8. [Source: 
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Author Salman Rushdie, an ‘X’ factor in JCPOA (File photo)
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The New Dark Age 