Whether Pope's Francis potential advocacy on these issues will have any impact on a government that has so far chosen to systematically look away from the horrors increasingly unfolding before their eyes is impossible to predict.
Beneath the surface of the Maine summer, an elemental drama, cruel and increasingly ironic, unfolds with a logic that borders on the Sophoclean.
The narrative of the Anthropocene is one of a slowly, but increasingly rapid, unfolding process that in all probability will manifest as a catastrophe for the sustainability of the planet, its ecological systems, human and more-than-human inhabitants (Dalby 2014; Lewis and Maslin 2015; McKinnon 2017; Monastersky 2015; Rockstrom et al. 2009).
But sitting on the fence becomes increasingly uncomfortable as events unfold, and the vibes from Washington have become distinctly colder over the past 24 hours.
The two men, who were often at odds during the latter part of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, face similar charges, and as their trials unfold they increasingly seem to blame each other.
The events that unfold are increasingly absurd and Kafkaesque, but Vida makes it clear that the mishaps, including the appropriation of another tourist's passport, an after-show run-in with Patti Smith, and a budding relationship with a famous American actress as unlikely as it is tumultuous, are the result of the narrator's shaky state of mind rather than a mere streak of bad luck.
William Abitbol, a French right-winger, told the delegates last week that their deliberations were increasingly "surreal" against unfolding international events.
In her isolated home in the woods the woman in the film attempts to communicate using a strange, unidentifiable machine, the increasingly agitated score unfolding with a Shostakovich-like paranoia.
In making the controversial declaration, the widely revered civil rights leader gave voice to a growing number of Americans who have watched in abject horror as the presidential transition of an increasingly belligerent Donald Trump unfolds.
