Can WASPs save the Earth all by themselves - or are they ruining it, all by themselves ?

The world's environmental problems are way too big for 5% (or is it 4% or less ?) of the world's population who are WASPs (people like good old like Chip and Buffy down at the old country club) to solve all by themselves.

Big Tents always welcome in the small - don't they ?

After 1945, western democracies couldn't extend civil rights and a greater share of the economic pie to well fed and well educated affluent anglo saxon white men - those lucky guys already had it all and more.

No, it seems prima facie evident that increasing human and biological diversity inside a Big Tent always means inviting the small inside.

Or does it ?

This blog is about a wartime Manhattan-based project, from the small side of life, that aimed to create a Big Tent to fight not just WWII but the causes of WWII, and to invite everybody in - small, big and the in-betweeners ...

What cherishing human and biological diversity isn't

It isn't about post-1945 efforts to extend civil rights to healthy and wealthy, well educated, white Anglo Saxon males - but rather about post-1945 efforts to extend civil rights to visible minorities, immigrants, the poor, women, gays and the handicapped.

It isn't about protecting the seed stock of high yielding patented corn hybrids but rather in protecting the dozens of hardy but low yielding traditional native varieties in the public domain.

biodiversity is on the side of the small battalions

Greed and Privilege may be on the side of the Big Battalions, but biodiversity always is on the side of the small battalions...