Thank you for this clear-headed assessment of our predicament. I see no alternative for those of us grounded in reality but to do our best to practice and propagate permaculture; to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness—mindfully, strategically, and relentlessly, and to regenerate our localized subcultures by learning, teaching, healing, and creating the seeds of a Gaian future amidst the crumbling ruins of Glomart (that is, the money-and fossil fuel-based Global Market Economy whose incremental and irreversible overshoot and collapse have already started, and will only grow worse with time. )But given the choice between permaculture and suicide, I choose the former, thanks!