I agree entirely with your assessment, Christopher. Catastrophic events like earthquakes, volcanoes, or meteor impacts occur on geological time scales, and there is nothing we can do about them—they could happen tomorrow afternoon, or a few hundred thousand years from now…But the multiple interlocking and self-accelerating feedback loops of the global climate crisis are happening now, in historical time, at warp speed…and it’s entirely our fault. The future we all imagined has been canceled, and what we now face is primordial horror on a global scale, wiping out human civilization far sooner than anyone imagined, as crops fail and heat waves, fires, hurricanes, and floods ravage what’s left of our agriculture, our social infrastructure, and our biological support systems. Like everything else in nature, our civilizations and ultimately our species itself and the biosphere that supports us all are impermanent.