We have the ability to build out a renewable and sustainable energy grid but choose to retain obsolete and harmful types of energy production in abeyance to oligarchical wishes.  How much of US military action around the globe that includes Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, to name a few, is to “spread democracy around the world” that is a euphemism for protecting oligarchical interests.  Use of military action rather than good governance seems to have promoted movement to the brink of war.  Too many nations have nuclear arms, including the USA.  Climate Change is still the existential crisis of our lifetime.  How ironic if a nuclear war was the remedy to Climate Change caused by over-industrialization.   read more