I agree that we are in a climate crisis lead by accelerating global heating that is being relentlessly fed by the use of fossil fuels to run the capitalist philosophy of “unlimited growth”, greed, and so on. Also, as the case of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi illustrates, the negative effects of climate crisis are amplified by racism and the imbalances caused by ingrained white privilege (especially in the former states of the Confederacy). Jackson became a majority black city because of white flight from the idea of integrated schools; and then the money spigot to maintain (or even strengthen) the water system in the capital city dried up. The white power structure did not care about a black city. But the white suburban towns around Jackson have working infrastructure for the reliable delivery of water to homes and businesses. Just imagine what will happen has the climate crisis expands and intensifies. The impediments to planning and responding collectively to crisis will be profoundly hampered by America’s ingrained racism and entrenched socio-political ideals of white supremacy. Also, as the case of the lone Russian submarine commander who forestalled a nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis illustrates, we are also on a knifes edge of self-destruction by nuclear conflict when havoc rules our psyche.