Imbalances in the planetary balance sheet

First Class passengers like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are building their own escape pods. Two viral diseases are spreading rapidly, one called Covid-19 and the other FakeNews. Scientists and the rational-thinking can’t seem to convince everyone that we should cooperate to fix the planet before we all burn up.

THE planet is clearly in a mess. How did we get into this mess and how do we get out of it?

The trouble is that we are 7.8 billion passengers on Spaceship Earth, with the captain, chief engineer, crew and passengers all quarrelling, whilst the critical zone outer skin is burning up.