Thank you for sharing this insightful piece, and I have enjoyed the comments as well. From childhood, I think, I have had a deeply felt sense that something was terribly awry with the “American Dream” of endless growth and affluence that we shared at that time (the postwar boom years of the 50s and 60s). I still remember feeling heartbroken when the beautiful farms, meadows, and woodlands out beyond the suburbs where we lived were plowed under and carpeted with soul-numbing tract houses. When I expressed my dismay at this erasure of natural beauty, my mother would say things like, “but people need a place to live, Tommy.” And I wanted to scream, “So do the trees, the wildflowers, the birds, the animals!” But when I said such things, parents or teachers would ridicule me. Fast forward to today, retired and in my seventies: I still feel as I did at a child, only now I know why: our global market economy, based on endless growth of production and consumption, is fundamentally incompatible with our biological support system, the living Earth. And so we have become the Cancer of the Earth, and cancer has only two possible outcomes: death (systemic collapse) or spontaneous remission. The former is by far the most likely, but the latter, however rare, is possible. So the task for all awakening people today is to find their own effective and creative path to becoming agents of spontaneous remission of the cancer of the Earth. It gives us something to live for, even as our cancerous consumer civilization collapses all around us. Let us all pitch in and plant the seeds of regeneration from the ground up—by growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness.