scales of life gone haywire

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html

. . . more than 1.65 billion Apple products in use worldwide have been vulnerable to NSO’s spyware since at least March. It signals a serious escalation in the cybersecurity arms race, with governments willing to pay whatever it takes to spy on digital communications en masse

Kirk Sale:

“Bioregionalism provides a scale at which the consequences of individual and regional actions are visible and unconcealable, and violence can be seen to be a transgression in defiance of basic ecological common sense; a scale at which even error and iniquity, should they happen, will not do irreparable damage beyond the narrow regional limits and will not send their poisons coursing through the veins of entire continents and the world itself.”