How to address one of the developed world’s most intractable public health crises? We just may need alien intervention. In “The R Strategy,” Mike Di Paola offers a modest proposal in sci-fi clothing. This witty, horrifying story may cause you to reconsider your hamburger and whether our own stubbornly self-destructive species should have the right to exist. “The R Strategy” suggests an answer: Hominids wouldn’t stand a chance in a realpolitik gone intergalactic.  Enter here …  

Mike Di Paola lives in New York and usually writes on environmental and animal welfare issues. He has a passion for science-fiction, especially that which keeps the science and fiction separate. He believes time travel is possible–but only forward, and at your own pace.