Mike, your article is a cogent summary of our present and future. Our ways of living embrace the overuse of fossil fuels to support unrestrained growth for eight billion people. Even now the CO2 already spewed into Earth’s atmosphere is enough to bring deadly consequences for a century or more. To avoid total extinction we must make radical changes in our use of energy while implementing a global economy of living sustainably on a planet of finite resources. Unfortunately, the one vehicle of radical change we humans have perfected is the art of brutal war. The final acceptance of “apocalyptic extinction” squeezing upon us will tip the most aggressive nation-states into a desperate global war to bring about a rapid population reduction and to restructure the economies, philosophies, and social structures needed to survive beyond 2030, and the coming decades of climate chaos that will reshape the ecological baseline of planet Earth.