Sliding Past the Shadows of Catastrophe
Means Ph. D., Ronald D. We have entered an age of gathering shadows, of existential threats which could cascade together into an obliterating storm: climate change and its accumulating fallouts, the darkening possibilities of nuclear war, the undermining of our life supporting environment, the risks of uncontrollable pandemics, of massive displacements of populations, of genocidal conflicts, of economic overreach and collapse, of tyrannical restrictions on freedom, t...