these are just a few exerpts from the tons of articles published daily describing different features of our crumbling and choking planet… White House staff and the Energy Department, working closely with lobbyists for the same companies we had sued, directed EPA to expand loopholes that allow 40- or 50-year-old power plants to continue pumping [...]

I love the twist that’s in play here as the United States’s government structure makes its own dents and distortions in the ‘progress’ it wants for everyone else: When the United States beat the Soviet Union in the first race to the moon, it confirmed the view, to many, that capitalism rules and communism sucks. [...]