My God what a bleak read. It summarises everything that I fear: that our “height of civilisation” is an uncharacteristic blip (coincidentally solving the Fermi

My God what a bleak read. It summarises everything that I fear: that our “height of civilisation” is an uncharacteristic blip (coincidentally solving the Fermi Paradox, but I digress), that various thresholds have already been crossed, that the nonlinear dynamics of the system will push inevitably towards a new attractor (“Hothouse Earth”, in this lexicon), and that we’ve societally collectively blundered into this outcome and that we lacked the collective willpower to inflict upon all of ourselves an absolutely unfathomable setback.