Thank you for this refreshingly honest hypertextual article. I read many of the links as well, and they were all illuminating and honest as well. I heartily endorse your counsel of acceptance based on your precise grasp of our predicament. As Bob Dylan once observed, “People don’t do what they believe in; they just do what’s most convenient, and then they repent.” This could well be our epitaph, left behind on a dusty, sweltering planet with the resident microbes and fungi devouring the last corpses…
However, ALL animals do what’s most convenient, following the path of least resistance to the next source of the energy they need and feed on; we are not alone in this. But the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels turbocharged our quest for ever more convenience—leading to overshoot and collapse, not only of us, but of the entire biosphere and technological infrastructures we depend on. Glomart ( my abbreviation of the money-based Global Market Economy) has become a terminal cancer on Gaia ( our biological support system) and that cancer is past cure. So collectively we are doomed; individually, we still have options. I sum up my own “take” on our best individual options as follows: Grow gardens (while we can); Grow community; and Grow awareness by learning, teaching, healing, and creating. Nothing else matters…