Thank you again for this clear assessment, Ricky, however monumentally depressing it is. Since our catastrophic election of a climate-denying, pro-corporate fascist ignoramus last month, I have lost all hope for a collective change of direction, or even of slowing down the juggernaut. The Sixth Extinction is coming--fast--and it may rival the Permian event in its totality. As always, I hope I'm wrong about this, but I see little evidence of any kind of mass awakening to reality. (After all, being "woke" will soon be criminalized in the Former USA...)