In general, I agree. Our civilization has been doomed ever since we bought into the maximizing, zero-sum logic of money as the sole arbiter of our collective decision-making. The intrinsic logic of the money game—more is always better and what’s mine is not yours—requires an economy of infinite growth of production and consumption of commodities. And this in turn requires infinite population growth, infinite extraction of finite resources, infinite destruction of complex ecosystems, to be replaced by vast monocultures dependent on fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and increasingly toxic herbicides and pesticides—along with ever more pollution and global heating from fossil fuel emissions. Infinite growth on a finite planet is, and always has been, the ideology of a cancer cell, and now that cancer has gone terminal.

Therefore, our best bet if we wish to have a shot at being part of the saving remnant after the coming global collapse—is to emancipate ourselves, incrementally and collaboratively, from the global market economy—the money game—by growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness.