People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determined as any terrestrial corporate frontman to prevent a successful conclusion to the climate talks. How I know? Because every time anyone gets together to try to prevent global climate breakdown, He swaths the rich, densely habited parts of the world with snow and ice, while leaving obscurer places to cook.