He said fossil fuel subsidies were endemic in the US: "Every single well, pipeline, refinery, coal and gas plant in the country is heavily subsidised.
His brilliantly reimagined fictional landscape conjures a hellish vision of the developing world's endemic dislocation.
They say that prosecuting professionals for "so-called FGM" in such circumstances distracts people from tackling the real issues, which are girls being sent abroad for FGM or having it done in the UK and combatting cultural attitudes in countries where it is endemic.
"The greatest risk factor for it becoming endemic is the international community taking its eye off the ball.
Although it is, in theory, possible that Ebola will become endemic, a far more likely outcome is that the epidemic will eventually burn out, probably by the end of this year.
"We are still a long way from it becoming endemic," he said.
Dr Peter Walsh, researcher in emergent disease dynamics at the University of Cambridge, said there was no compelling evidence of changes that would make the virus more likely to become endemic.
If Ebola were to become endemic, said Turner, the virus would have to mutate a little.
Because so many "national" powers are concentrated in a small cadre of people, graft is even worse than in the rest of Bosnia, where it is endemic.
Scientists are warning of a real risk that the Ebola virus disease could become endemic in west Africa if efforts to end the epidemic slacken as the number of cases falls.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, went to the Senate floor on Thursday to denounce the violence endemic in her state's native communities, and to say she will urge the House to move forward.
