Thank you for sharing this astute analysis of our current plight as relatively affluent individuals in a world slowly crumbling all around us. Denial, however deluded, is a far more comfortable state of mind than despair. This is why I have chosen to practice and propagate, as best I can, my own coping formula: GROW GARDENS; GROW COMMUNITY; GROW AWARENESS.

It may be futile—we all may well be doomed to extinction—but it is better than living in denial or despair. It gives me some useful goals—and who knows? It may yet trigger the spontaneous remission of the terminal cancer of the Earth (the global market economy or “Glomart”). I will not live to see this, of course, but perhaps you or your children may…