In fact, we live in an absurd reality. Wars are raging in many parts of the world. There’re also an awful lot of people living in poverty. Everything is at stake as the fragile world economy shows signs of weakness, and so on. All of this contributes to the increasing exploitation of the entire living system, call it nature if you will. In addition, scarce resources such as rare earths, fossil fuels, and others are being greatly overexploited. We probably won’t fully realize that many of them aren’t unlimited until we almost run out of these substances that are essential to modern daily life. In the meantime, the entire climate system is under pressure, with consequences we choose to ignore. We are likely to miss the opportunity for voluntary action. My guess is that we will be forced to.