By Martin Love

Countries can rot like fish out of water — from the head down…

Badly disposed homo sapiens inhabit every nook and cranny of the globe. There are enough of them, though they are a small, distinct minority, to make a soul sometimes feel ashamed of being one of the species. There is absolutely NO other species on earth that has done so much damage to other species and to themselves and to Nature for millennia as homo sapiens, and perhaps especially in the last couple of centuries as the earth’s number of humans has swelled in Malthusian leaps and bounds. Among mammals, it’s not even remotely possible to compare destructive human behaviors to the behaviors of other mammals because, simply, there is no comparison to be made.