THE HUMAN PARTY

The city is man's most consistent, and on the whole his most successful attempt to remake the world more after his heart's desire.  But if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live.  Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man has remade himself.
- Robert Park, 1967

Artwork by Margaux Wosk (@artfulretro)

How is it…that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?”

- Dr. Alexander Shulgin

corporate control of water in latin america

What is called for is an international code for the public's access to to a guaranteed supply of water as a basic human right.

To truly combat climate change, we must fundamentally restructure our national and international policy-making processes, in addition to rethinking the fundamental human aspirations that policy aims to satisfy.  These are big, complex targets, and they reach to the very core of contemporary society.   Universities can and must play a leading role in the societal restructuring needed to avert the global catastrophe predicted by climate scientists and government agencies around the world.