Thank you, Geoffrey, for your kind and thoughtful words, and for your expertise on the primordial catastrophes we are facing. I agree, on the whole, with your dire conclusions (See my own essay “Life without Hope” here on Medium).

But when nothing is left to live for, we have essentially three choices to avoid living in chronic misery and dread: (1) Suicide; (2) “Carpe Diem” self-indulgence; or (3) Embracing the present moment, doing what we know is right, and (as Gandhi often said) “renouncing the fruits of action” (that is, letting go of attachment to outcomes). I have made the third choice, for what it’s worth…