War and the Changing Environment: Guest Post by Lynda Ames

As we who can* sit in our socially distanced offices, homes, dens, gardens during the onslaught of COVID-19, it is difficult not to consider the potential end of the world, at least the end of the world-as-we-know-it.  (Some of us have read too many apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels.)  But the end of the world-as-we-know-it may,