climate change

Firefighters’ scorched lungs don’t figure in Trump’s scorched earth policies. Twenty-first century megafires have become the new normal in many places, including across the American West. According to figures provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, an average of well over six million acres of wildlands have burned every year over the last decade, and with unabated high emissions of greenhouse gases, theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that the risk of very large wildfires could increase by up to six-fold by mid-century. 

Accelerating climate change, and an array of other serious global problems and conflicts, prompting some theorists to warn of a “societal collapse”, suggest that the time has come for a new, global social contract, including what I am calling a “global governance initiative.”  Here is a brief summary of this situation, and of my prescription.