As a social critic, Human Rights-oriented autodidact with strong interest in sociology, arts, and the sciences, Mark Plimsoll believes that our planet, globally warmed by human activities, will become less habitable real fast unless the USA reduces consumption, military-imposed hegemony, and in general, "bottom line" Capitalist greed without environmental consequences in the equation. As a young man, he hitchhiked into Latin America to discover how people live on one dollar per day, and began the life-long acquisition of Spanish as his second language. His literary works typically lack passiv more...