Your droll support of Zimbabwe’s choice to head the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (“Hot Seats,” May 19, 2007), startling as it is, finds ample support in your review of the hapless country in the same issue (“Back to the Dark Ages”). No matter how skillful Robert Mugabe may have been in holding onto power, Zimbabwe is rapidly falling apart politically, economically, socially. Death and destruction are behind the corner. As your subtitle to the latter article envisages, “the last person to leave may not have any lights to turn off.” Who knows, there might be some definition of sustainable development by which Zimbabwe will one day indeed be shown to have led the entire world. In the glorious end, there will be no lights to turn off anywhere around the globe.