To paraphrase Woody Guthrie, ThrashWorld is my world, and ThrashWorld is your world.

All 7 billion of us—roughly the population of Homo sapiens on the planet today—are citizens of ThrashWorld. The name derives from the crazy old aunt in my novel, Abigail in Gangland. Her last name is Thrasher, but her nephew Luke, with good reason, calls her Aunt Thrash. 

Think about it. A planet in crisis on virtually all fronts, led by global climate change, or GLOCCH, as I call it. Polar ice melting. Sea levels rising. Storms more violent. Savage wildfires. Agriculture threatened by drought and flooding. Deadly new viruses. Species vanishing. Small towns gutted by globalization. Cities choked with overpopulation, cars and pollution. Crime rates soaring as poverty increases. Loneliness, depression and suicide. Insane gyrations on the stock markets. Wars for control of dwindling petroleum and other resources. Terrorism and genocide. Swarms of displaced people worldwide . . .

In short, a planet thrashing with intractable problems, turbulence and pain. Thrashing about like a wounded and dying beast on the desert, grabbing at solutions that won’t suffice—least of all those that are being  proposed by a self-serving, profit-maddened, global corporate elite and its proxies in government.

This is ThrashWorld. This is my website with a link to my blog, “Love and Rage,” where, among other things, I will state the obvious case for world revolution in our lifetime—based on the principles of maximum ecology, human scale, and local autonomy and self-reliance. I want to hear your ideas, too. Maybe together we can make a difference. If not, if we are trapped in a slow-motion apocalypse that won’t be stopped, we can at least support each other and have a few laughs as darkness falls.

Ray Reece was born in Colorado and raised in Texas. He has worked as a cowboy, a factory hand, a college teacher, a journalist and a full-time activist in the U.S. civil rights, anti-war and deep ecology movements. Currently a columnist for The Budapest Sun, he is the author of two previous novels, Fabian's Dream and Crossfire, and a non-fiction work, The Sun Betrayed: A Report on the Corporate Seizure of U.S. Solar Energy Development. Pursuant to his effort to promote his books and generate resistance to the corporate oligarchs destroying the planet, he divides his time between Italy, Hungary and the United States.