Thank you for this refreshing piece, Christyl. You are absolutely right about this. The blame game gets us nowhere; it's much better to simply commit to doing what we can, when we can, and however we can, to relocalize our economy thereby emancipating ourselves from the profit-driven, fossil fuel-dependent global market economy ("Glomart" as I call it) that is destroying the only life-supporting planet we will ever know. There are many ways to do this, adaptable to our personal situations. The problem is not with humanity per se; it is with the epistemological error we made at the dawn of agriculture and the money system: that we are somehow apart from, and "above" Nature, which has no value beyond being a raw material to transform into commodities for sale, thereby to enrich the already rich and impoverish all the rest of us. Instead, we can begin with the recognition that we are a part of nature, not apart from it, and that we have the option, individually and collectively, of seeing Nature (including ourselves) as a SYSTEM, rather than a "resource" for commodification, and therefore becoming symbiotic healing agents, rather than destructive parasites, upon that system. This is the practice of Permaculture, or Gaian praxis: growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness, by learning, teaching, healing, and creating. So let's get on with it, folks!