Workers of the world, unite!

Averting the apocalypse is a radical enterprise—in two senses of the word radical:

1) in the sense of the root meaning of the word—which, as it happens, is about roots: “of, relating to, or proceeding from a root,” as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary puts it. Or, from the Oxford English Dictionary: “going to the root or origin; touching or acting upon wha…