A Book Club Discusses Our Shrinking Humanness and Corporatocracy's Attack on Democracy

On a recent Sunday evening, Juanita and I gathered with a local Book Club who’d invited us because they were reading my book, Blinded by Progress. One of the Book Club participants joked, “I knew the author was coming, so I wrote out my answers to the questions. I’m expecting a test.” It was a fun way for her to tell us that she was prepared for the night.

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Why I Named Two Rival Worldviews "MultiEarth" and "OneEarth"

Written the way I write them, MultiEarth and OneEarth, are new words. I use them to name the two worldviews that stand at odds with one another today, though they also go by other names. I like MultiEarth and OneEarth because they immediately convey the truth that only one of the two lives INSIDE the capacities of our magnificent planet. The other requires multiple Earths—an impossibility that creates systems designed to give a minority of people most of the resources while depriving most of the people and other species of even their one Earth share.

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