A good summary of the very bad news for our children, and who is responsible. But in outlining the potential choices we have at the personal and political levels for addressing this steadily worsening crisis, you overlook a middle path: growing community. People generally change their habits when they identify with something bigger than themselves — but not too big. So expecting people to change based on identification with “the Earth” is a nonstarter for most. But what about their own neighborhood? We have largely lost any sense of community with our immediate neighbors since our sustaining infrastructures — fossil fuels, the electric grid, mass media and the internet — enable us to ignore them. But what if we made a concerted effort to reverse this alienation — by growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness at the local level? We would all become more resilient, more caring, and less dependent on the fossil fuel infrastructure and consumer economy that are destroying our future, yet the payoffs would start immediately, as we make new friends, share homegrown vegetables, skills, and ideas, and collaborate in creating a regenerative culture from the ground up to displace our toxic industrial/consumer society as it inevitably collapses.