![]() “ careers reproduce the features of earlier mob leaders: failure in professional and social life, perversion and disaster in private life,” Hannah Arendt, author of the essential The Origins of Totalitarianism, wrote. This reality-television star, failed businessman, sexual predator, and hate-and-fear monger is clearly aiming for the fast track toward totalitarian rule. Racism, sexism, xenophobia and myriad other structural forms of hate are amplifying around the globe as a fascist authoritarian has ascended to the US presidency, the most powerful office in the world. The planet’s largest ecosystems are in free-fall collapse as ACD proceeds apace. Humans have changed the chemistry of the oceans and altered the very atmosphere of Earth. We are living in a time of the convergence of multiple cataclysmic forces: runaway anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD), chronic wars and the most grotesque economic inequality ever witnessed on Earth. What did you do when the earth was unraveling? ![]() What did you do while the planet was plundered? ![]()
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