Your assessment of our predicament is a harsh one, but the indicators of our climate emergency can’t be ignored by those who contemplate what our near and long-term future portends. We can’t truly know the short-term outcomes other than to think with near certainty that climatic chaos is here and accelerating. Chaos is not a stable foundation for complex human organization. It’s only reasonable to project collapse and reconfiguration of our life ways throughout the coming years and decades while the availability of both food and safe havens drops dramatically. It should also be said that a mini ice age for Europe can be in the mix of dramatic change depending on what happens with the AMOC-Gulf Stream the brings warmth to Northern Europe. Our sad political dramas are nothing but a biting gnat on the dark hide of our climate future,