A perceptive analysis of our predicament: that the economic system that makes our modern lives possible is also killing our future. But we need, I think, to find a better word than “capitalism,” since this system is not an “ism” at all. Rather, it is what predictably happens when a civilization is predicated on the zero-sum logic of money, which is essentially nothing more than arithmetic: an abstract transform of the marginal value of commodities. The money game has only two production rules: (1) more is always better; (2) what’s mine is not yours. Applied in practice, these two rules lead inexorably to the upward concentration of wealth, as any Monopoly game clearly illustrates. And on a finite planet, the only way it can continue is through relentless pursuit of infinite growth of production and consumption of commodities. Add to that a vast new reservoir of easily available net energy (fossil fuels) and you get exactly what we face today: the terminal cancer of the Earth. And cancer has only two possible outcomes: death (systemic collapse) or—very rarely—spontaneous remission. So our challenge today is to develop strategies for triggering the spontaneous remission of the cancer of the Earth. Good luck on that!