Mike, you are a great synthesizer of the data; and your projections of how the actualized data will impact our collective future is well stated.

Timing on how the really bad impacts of extreme weather plays out will be a crucial issue relevant to how fast collapse will manifest.

At some point the idea of “money” being of importance for survival will diminish and the hold of consumption capitalism and rent-based wealth will become a dead hand.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that the impacts of severe climate events will not be evenly distributed across the globe. And this will be a constraint on full acceptance for global coordinated action.

It will take some time for change to initiate systematic collapse. Will that timeline be less than 5 years, or maybe more like 40 years? We’ll just have to live through it all to know the answer. Although my sense of what the science is saying points to a short timeline, and not the longer 40 years.

In the meantime we should strive to hold on to as much rational action as possible as our relationships with each other and nature are harshly remodeled.