On Años en infierno, Xibalba asks the question, “How could empire be any worse?” “While it may not follow from our present crisis,” writes Samuel Miller McDonald, “it is certain that eventually this empire will fall. Every single empire that has existed has crumbled and this one must, too, if only by destroying itself.” This empire, the fossil fuel empire, is the most expansive empire in history. More than just a land empire a la the Mongolian Empire, which stretched over 16 percent of the Earth and expired after 160 years, the fossil fuel empire is more totalizing in scope: “In … Continue reading Xibalba’s Años en infierno and the Hell of Empire