can see it clearly from the air. The Hatian side has all been logged off and the soil eroded, while the Dominican side is still forested." We're also one species with many diverse attributes. Like "birds of the same feather", the ones that don't seem to resemble seem to be taken for a ride for the collective good of the "birds of the same feather". So, sorry... we're not "one", really. There will be differences and, I say this with cynicism, humans will never stand up above their animal nature. Exploitation will go on and that means, a distorted view of reality, will always persist. So some will be blamed for, some will be used as scape goats and some ignorant masses will be taken for a ride with false promises. Deceit, Suffering and Death - inevitable outcome of life. This question of the need for (or, more descriptively, the likelihood of) authoritarian responses to the predictable unworkability of present economic and industrial arrangements is one that begs for analysis rather than mere expressions of aversion. As for the suggested alternatives, none of the three seem to directly address the problem, say, of resettling a large fragment of the population from places that are hardly viable without the availability of cheap energy on a massive scale. Furthermore, how, under what circumstances, and in what time frames, are the three proposals envisioned as coming about? By means of representative democracy? Wasn't Ben Franklin who said, "Democracy is two wolves and a