Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
IN PREVIOUS Ramblings I have written about a remarkable creature, the horseshoe crab.
This 10-eyed “living fossil” isn’t actually a crab at all but it is very endangered and becoming more so.
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods. They live in salt and brackish water, primarily in and around shallow coastal seas. The first time I saw them they were climbing mangrove trees in Florida’s everglades.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation poses an existential threat — but do today’s politicians have the capacity to deliver the more resilient and sustainable economics of tomorrow, wonders ALAN SIMPSON


