Some of these interventions were coups, some were long standing wars of counterinsurgency against popular generally democratic movements of the people, and many were targeted several times over the years. As the Greek officer told a suspect they were preparing to interrogate, We are all Americans here. And then there is the Earth itself, which we are pressing to the limits. Global Warming is happening. From the melting of ice sheets and ice fields to the increase in hurricane frequency and unstable weather everywhere, the evidence is mounting.
Man sure likes to upset the equilibrium.
The biosphere is hit with one of the greatest extinction periods in its history, all at the hand of man. And it is further threatened to its genetic basis. And consumer capitalism gobbles up the Earth s resources. Careful analysis of the world s oil reserves in light of increasing demands indicates that we are approaching the halfway point in oil reserves, from which point the remaining oil will be increasingly expensive to extract. Not long after, we will reach a point when we must expend more energy extracting the fuel than is contained in the fuel itself.