Published

2 years ago

February 23, 2024

Alice Rush

It’s common for people to wonder about human civilization, how it’s been dominated by men, and what form it would have taken if that weren’t the case.

Would war have become the default mechanism for settling disagreements between nations? To what extent would there be nations at all, meaning tribal groups that generally act as competitors, rivals, even enemies?

How likely does it seem that a woman would rise to absolute power like a Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Putin, or Trump (if he gets his way).

Sadly, it appears that we’ll never know how this could have turned out. In fact, here in the United States, and in several countries round the globe, things are going in the opposite direction.

Empowering Women

Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Published

20 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

Published

3 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.