Used, very good condition, paperback. Signed by the author. Who actually owns Planet Earth? Ruth Barnett argues that we are all temporary tenants and therefore nobody can be illegal or illegitimate; but discrimination persists to an unacceptable and dangerous extent and it is the first step[ down the slippery slope that ends in genocide. We are still far from learning the two major lessons of the Holocaust: to treat all people as equal human beings and to protest at what is clearly unacceptable violence early enough to prevent it escalating. If we don't master these two problems, the human race is in danger of self-destructing. Barnett argues that denial nad indifference are worse than overt expression of prejudice and racism because they operate mostly below the radar. It is time to open our eyes, wake up from the indifference, open our minds and hearts to the whole issue of genocide and the transmission of victims' trauma to subsequent generations. Barnett maintains, there have been