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Like An Acid

Now come a few trenchant excerpts from a recent interview with Rob Wallace, an evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer presently visiting the Institute for Global Studies at the...

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100 Seconds to Midnight

      To which we append this excerpt from a cogent essay by Joseph Cirincione in the journal Responsible Statecraft:     ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜    

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Here Come the Carbon Bombs

This week, we urge careful consideration of timely and essential reporting from The Guardian, detailing a series of fossil fuel “carbon bomb” projects presently underway, or in advanced stages of...

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When Hope Becomes Toxic

While roaming through the fertile and abundant archives of Green Dreamer, always worthy of a close listen, we came across a fascinating passage from post-Humanist philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé, author of...

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Downward Toward Barbarism

In the aftermath of yet another lethal school assault, twenty three years after Columbine, we highlight a brief response from The Atlantic staff writer David Frum, with the opening paragraphs...

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Imperial Imperatives

This week, for reasons that we are sure need not be scribed here, we bend an ear to the distinguished historian Caroline Elkins, author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. Excerpts...

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Show & Tell

In response to the typically grandiose claims made by Elon Musk while updating the world on “progress” regarding brain chips, the honorable non-profit, Physicians for Responsible Medicine, released...

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Time to Focus on Lifeboats

We launch this twelfth DP navigation with the most consequential graphic visualization of our prevailing crisis, vividly depicting increases in global surface temp between the years of 1880 and 2021....

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A Tale of Two Sinkings

Now comes Amy Goodman, with an introduction to a Democracy Now segment reflecting on the disparity of media attention between the implosion of Titan/ic delusions and the tragedy of the Adriana. The...

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Hungry Ghosts

As Eileen Crist brilliantly documented back in 2019, deep-sea mining is not only a grim prospect for the future; it is a reality in the present via exploratory permits and temporary leases, perversely...

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