FROM THE EDITOR
As Adams wryly observed, “Human beings, who are almost
unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination
to do so.”
What do we need to do so?
I
f you have ever read Douglas Adams’ book, “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” you will recognize this
admonition delivered just before the Earth was to be
destroyed. This time we live in bears certain similarities, although it is we, and not the Vogons, who are
threatening our planet’s future.
Panic might be a reasonable response in a world where savagery has been unleashed and people are being killed and
brutalized because of their race, gender, religion or ethnicity; where air, land and sea are being pillaged, polluted and
laid waste; where wealth is obscenel