If we were rational beings, there might have been some hope of persuading us to make fewer babies in order to provide a better future for those we have already. But I have seen little evidence that humans, in the aggregate, are any more rational than flies and maggots in a feeding frenzy on a rotting carcass, or proliferating yeasts in a fermentation vat. The meat on the carcass, or sugar in the vat, is fossil fuel, which we will feed on until it runs out, and then, like yeasts, die in our own waste products. So collectively we are doomed; individually, we have options, for now. The best option I know of, for now, is to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness—by creating subcultures based on learning, teaching, healing, and creating, rather than buying more toys and exploiting the less fortunate.