For more than thirty years prior to 2007, Americans consistently identified nuclear war as their biggest fear. However, since then, North Americans have increasingly singled out the degradation of our environment as their biggest worry. It's a sad irony that the threat from our foreign enemies has been displaced by fear of our own destructive powers. Much of this concern is valid; our communal future is at risk less from a single, cataclysmic event than from the steady ruining of our … [Read more...]
