Dear Mark,
I've just returned from some weeks in Ireland to find your two
postings. You say a great many things that need saying--desperately--and
I find myself largely, although not entirely, in agreement with them. In
addition to the excellent issue of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY to which David
Schwartzman refers in his reply, I will immodestly refer you to my
scenario-novel A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (1992, The University of
Chicago Press; also Adamantine Press in the U.K.), which offers a vision
of the next century not far removed from yours. You will find it lacking
in various respects, perhaps critically lacking, but we are in accord on
the reality of the planetary eco-crisis, the mad rush of globalization,
the coming self-immolation of the capitalist behemoth accompanied by
radical depopulation of the earth, and its replacement in a more
chastened age by a world commonwealth of working men and women.
Fraternally,
Warren
W. Warren Wagar
<wwagar@binghamton.edu>