Most discussions of the climate crisis overlook the larger, underlying context, which lies in the intersection of fossil fuels and the money system. Our global market economy (for which I have coined the nickname “Glomart”) is a complex adaptive system that runs on two production rules: (1) more is always better; (2) what’s mine is not yours. That is, Glomart is a zero sum game that depends entirely on the endless expansion of production and consumption of commodities, generally referred to as “growth.” But infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. The delusion of infinite growth was made possible only by the discovery and worldwide exploitation of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—which were highly concentrated reserves of stored solar energy from photosynthetic plants over hundreds of million years. No one realized until it was far too late that this motherlode of densely concentrated energy, when burned, gave off a vast amount of CO2 that would rapidly overheat the global atmosphere—yet by the time scientists understood this, our Glomart economy was hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels—and still is! After all, renewable energy like solar, wind, and hydro all depends on the mining, transportation, refining of raw materials, and then the manufacture and distribution of commodities like windmills, solar panels, hydro dam materials, etc. as a result, a renewable energy infrastructure is entirely dependent on diesel and other fossil fuels, since the EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) is far lower for renewables than for fossil fuels. Yet fossil fuels are also finite, and as they get harder to find and exploit, their high EROEI begins inexorably to decline—even as the carbon pollution per unit increases. So this is our predicament, and I see no way out of it, at least collectively. Individually, however, we still have options. The best option in my view is to relocalize as much of our essential food, products, and services as possible: to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness—starting today!