Thank you for this review. I don't need to read this, however, since I already know exactly what she is saying here, even if I lack the specific supporting details--and I know she is right about this. Fossil fuels are destroying our climate, even as they are going into peak and decline, and there are NO alternatives that can provide anything faintly resembling the huge surplus of net energy that fossil fuels have provided over the last two centuries--a surplus on which our entire global industrial civilization and exploding population all depend.

The big question at this moment is how we can best adapt to the inevitable, and precipitous, energy descent and destabilized, superheated climate that is now our collective future. Most of us, of course, won't. The resulting global systamic collapse and resulting die-off will be ghastly, to put it mildly. But those with the best chance of surviving the resulting hellscape will be those who have learned to grow their own food, to collaborate with others, and to build personal, social, and ecological resilience by learning, teaching, healing, and creating an emergent culture that is symbiotic with, rather than parasitic upon, whatever is left of Gaia, our biological support system.